While the idea of "learning" copyright law is not a bad one, artists should not forget that the law is simply a bunch of rules created by lawyers to enforce their indispensibility. I'l wager there is no artwork extant that could not be taken successfully to court by the right lawyer on the right day for an IP violation. The notion of IP has been agglomerated into a tasteless joke. Thirty years ago, Gary Gygax had to call "hobbits" "halfings", because Tolkien "invented" the word "hobbit." Tolkien himself is the authority on this, and a couple of you have suggested that there is evidence that this honest and world-class lexicologist was mistaken. So is "hobbit" his estate's intellectual property or not? Want to watch fur fly? Pay two lawyers to debate it. Offer them an extra 10%, and they'll do it in a vat of jello. Lawyers, like flies, will land and feed where the pickings are good and the defenses not. You can no more avoid them by learning the current "truth" about IP than you can avoid flies if you eat ice cream outside. A wise teacher offered the best alternative: Rather than venerate the "learned" Pharisees, whose wisdom is of their own makings, follow your heart and take your chances. And Will Blake said so too. M