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  • From: drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] (c) 2005 All of humanity
  • Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:53:22 -0400

I am asking from ignorance here...

Is there a possibility that both of you are right? Are there different ways
for "both" to hold copyright on the same work. Kind of like the difference
between Joint Tenants and Tenants in Common?

all the best,

drew

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 04:40 am, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 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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