[LAU] Changerd: Copyright laws and such

See, your first mistake is to describe the person as a property owner without qualifications. Second, I do not speak of private, contracted "showings" but rather of publication.

The draconian situation we have today is still not good enough to protect the works of the big copyright holders to their satisfaction. Open your eyes and look at they laws they are asking for and often getting.

So, you are whistling a new tune in your room with the windows open. Jack is walking by and hears some of it. It is catchy and he starts to whistle it as he walks along. John standing at the bus stop a few blocks away hears it as Jack passes. He too starts whistling the melody. He gets on the bus whistling. All of the bus riders hear at. When they get off the bus at their various stops they whistle it. Etc. In the absence of copyright law, do you really think you have some power or right to prevent this situation? Some right to be compensated by all of these people whistling without your permission? Oh, and by the way, to my ignorant understanding, if you hadn't yet written down what you were whistling when Jack heard, you don't get to copyright it. Oops. (I say ignorant as it may only happen if you perform it in public first. Etc.)