Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new

Ben Collins
2002-10-20T22:53:26Z

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.

That doesn't relinquish the OpenGroup's copyright, so they can sell as
many copies of the source as they want, nor would it relinquish IBM's
copyright to Transarc's source (who also purchased it from the
opengroup).

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