In Defense of Copyleft
However, Paul Lambert, a lawyer with LK Shields Solicitors in Dublin, argued that even with copyleft "as a fundamental concept, copyright remains, because copyleft can't work without copyright."
If a creative work was of sufficient quality and uniqueness, "copyright manifests automatically," he said. "It's created by statute -- you can't get away from that."
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