[cc-licenses] Free as in Gru
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Sun Apr 29 18:02:28 EDT 2007
Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> Terry Hancock schrieb:
>>"We buy all rights."
>>or
>>"We buy works outright."
>>
>>(The latter two mean the same thing, AFAIK).
>
> Almost. "All rights" means "all rights that can be transferred under
> applicable legislation".
> In many legislations, some rights are inalienable. E.g. the right to
> prevent misrepresentation of the original work - in other words, you can
> buy the film rights, but if the author doesn't like what you do with the
> story, he can veto the film anyway.
Okay, sure. But in those jurisdictions the two statements would still
mean the same thing. Because those certain rights are "inalienable", so
you can't sell them. Right?
Cheers,
Terry
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