Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new

Daniel Berlin
2002-10-20T22:46:54Z

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.

--Dan