[cc-licenses] (c) 2005 All of humanity
Daniel Carrera
daniel.carrera at zmsl.com
Tue Oct 11 04:40:15 EDT 2005
Greg London wrote:
> If Alice and Bob both hold copyright on some work
> (the wrote a novel together, for example),
> then any derivative of that novel must get
> Alice and Bob's permission. Both.
No. Alice can modify the book without Bob's permission. Bob can modify
the book without Alice's permission.
I see this happen every day at OpenOffice.org. Non-Sun contributors
agree to a "Joint Copyright" with Sun, which means that they both have
copyright ownership over this person's contribution. Sun then proceeds
to re-license it under whatever propietary license they like and put it
in StarOffice.
> I could be mistaken, though.
> I am not a lawyer.
> This is not legal advice.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I've seen from personal experience that
your premise is incorrect.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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