[OSM-legal-talk] transitive copyright and "creative errors"

[Gervase Markham]

John Wilbanks wrote:
> But indeed, contracts in the absence of IPRs are non-transitive. That's 
> the point of a contract - it's only binding to the people that sign it. 
> Otherwise I could sign a contract with Rob and it would bind Steve - and 
> something tells me Steve doesn't want me in particular to sign him up 
> for anything. We're back to the problem of privity.

Why can't contracts make contracts transitive? "You agree that if you 
pass this data on to someone else, they need to sign the same undertaking."

Gerv