Hello!
This is a good question and I believe Paul nailed it as far as modern law
goes, but the whole situation only shows that copyright law, patent law or
any other law are initially flawed as they are based on a false assumption
that it is possible to treat ideas as property. So a situation as you
described is possible and actually happens a lot in the patent system, which
seems more strict and where it is not granted by default but you have to
register stuff, yet they often end up with the same thing patented several
times by different people.
So yeah, it is a mess.
-- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.ru/
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