Since kayak building ivolves copyright issues at times, I'd say it's a fringe topic.

My limited exposure to copyright in music applications is that whoever originated it owns the copyright. The trick part is establishing time and executor of the origin. If you can show that you wrote it, say, while the opponent was still in diapers, you can debunk his claim to have written it himself.

> Also extremely off the topic: I've been in the publishing
> business as a designer for about 10 years and I have to disagree with the
> post regarding the copywrite. Perhaps I misread or didn't understand what
> I was reading but what's to stop the offender from copywriting the page as
> HIS. In the publishing industry, which might be slightly different than
> the web industry, a copywrite is obtained as soon as the product is
> printed or it's as good as lost. The © on a printed page doesn't hold up
> in court unless the page is registered with the copywrite commission. If
> one is publishing a 120 page magazine, one has to register each page as a
> copywrite in order to protect the etire book. Again, I don't really know
> where the laws stand on web stuff but I can't believe that they are much
> different. Thanks! Paul