Big deal. Dogs can do calculus! Lookie here

http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_06_09_03.html.

Ahh, I want to take my comment back. Fair use? First sale? The point is that you sign away some rights. My previous comment was more pedantry than anything else.

I can see how the above strips you of your rights as far as the first sale doctrine. But which of those "cannots" removes my fair use righs? I don't see it.

Down here in the next country South you can't copyright government documents. And I don't see why pennies wouldn't qualify. Strange country up there, eh?

Attribution is expected when exercising fair use rights.

This seem more like a case of plagiarism.

Here's yet another radical idea.

Copyrights and patents aren't property and therefore can't be transferred. They remain with the author or inventor until they expire.

The author or inventor can license usage to others, but that's not giving them total control.