[Wikipedia-l] What would Richard Stallman say? (IP users)

[Optim]

--- Vicki Rosenzweig <vr at redbird.org> wrote:
> I am not a lawyer, but I think you're confusing
> moral rights--specifically,
> the right to be identified as the
> author/artist/creator--with copyright, which
> is the right to *control who makes copies of a
> document*.
...
> Vicki 

In the past I had this dicsussion:

Someone told me: - "Wow, your new classical music
CDs are very nice."

I said: - "Yeap.."

He said: - "Classical music is old. so there is
no copyright and I can copy and play this music
as I like. Nobody can sue me."

I said: - "No, you cannot do whatever you want.
Beethoven has no copyright rights over this work,
but the ORCHESTRA which played the work, the
COMPANY which recorded and published the work,
ETC, have rights over their work. You will be
sued because you copied Beethoven's music, but
because you copied this particular
orchestra/music company's version of the music"

IANAL - I am not a lawyer

Am I right?

--Optim

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