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Originally Posted by pdurrant
This is not true.
It is true for trademarks. If a company doesn't protect its trademarks, it can lose the exclusive right to the trademark.
But it does not apply to copyright.
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Indeed - I was about to write the same myself. The trademark "Aspirin" was lost in the US through not being defended, for example (it's still a trademark elsewhere), but, as you rightly say, this doesn't apply to copyright.