On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 06:52:58PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> >
> > On Sunday, October 20, 2002, at 05:51 PM, Robert Love wrote:
> >
> > >On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 17:42, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > >
> > >>You're plain wrong.
> > >>
> > >>You both have the copyright on your work.
> > >
> > >It is called copyright _assignment_ for a reason. How the hell are two
> > >people supposed to simultaneously own a copyright on the same work?
> > >
> > Joint authorship.
> > "The authors of a joint work are co-owners of copyright in the work"
> > (17 USC ?201(a)).
> > IOW They each own a 100% copyright in the work.
> > Leads to odd situations of course, since one author can do whatever
> > they like with the work without any permission from the other authors,
> > etc.
>
> Think of this, if you pay $1,000,000 to the OpenGroup, you can purchase
> the source to DCE/DFS and do whatever the hell you want with it.
This is a license, not a transfer of copyright.
--Dan
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