He’s got plenty of time, alone there in his prison cell, to work on making sure his legal rights get asserted far and wide. (Serge F. Kovaleski, “Unabomber Wages Legal Battle to Halt the Sale of Papers”, New York Times, Jan. 22).
Litigious Unabomber
He’s got plenty of time, alone there in his prison cell, to work on making sure his legal rights get asserted far and wide. (Serge F. Kovaleski, “Unabomber Wages Legal Battle to Halt the Sale of Papers”, New York Times, Jan. 22).
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He does own the copyright to his written material. Do the forfeiture laws that transfer cash and material property to the government transfer intellectual property? Or has the the government ownership of the paper and ink but not the information content therein?
Does he own the copyright though?
The writings were seized as evidence by the police and became the property of the US government (through the DOJ).
Other writings were sent as open letters to the press with the express purpose of being printed and distributed.