[OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

One issue is that copyright assignment does not work in europe,
the fsfe has worked on some of these issues.
http://www.fsfe.org/projects/ftf/fla.en.html

see also :
http://lwn.net/Articles/359013/
>>>This is how coding/etc. for money works in Europe too -- you retain your moral rights, but your employer gets _all_ usage rights, which typically includes taking those right away from you so that while you can still claim authorship of the code, you cannot use it in any way.

Merry Christmas!
mike

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net> wrote:
> The new Contributor Terms contain the equivalent of a joint copyright
> assignment to the OSMF. That makes this recent article by Michael Meeks
> on copyright assignment in free software very relevant:
> http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/copyright-assignment.html
>
> Of course, not all of the pros and cons he raises are relevant to data
> rather than software. But the following sentence struck me:
>
> "It appears (to me) that choosing a license that can be upgraded and
> bug-fixed in-flight by a responsible steward or proxy substantially
> removes the requirement of assignment for re-licensing."
>
> I would recommend reading the whole article.
>
> Gerv
>
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