[OSM-legal-talk] Would The ODbL and BY-SA Clash In A Database Extracted From a BY-SA Produced Work?

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 7 September 2010 22:59,  <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>> 2) The "worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable
>> license to do any act that is restricted by copyright over anything
>> within the Contents, whether in the original medium or any other"
>> gives them that.
>>
>
> I got far enough through the Australian Copyright Act at the weekend to
> discover that this won't extend to Australia.
> Assignment of Australian copyright cannot be done over the internet.
> There are new High Court rulings regarding digital signatures which will
> have to be read to confirm this, but click-through is unlikely to meet the
> standard required.

It's the same here in Europe (or at least in Poland), a copyright
assignment can only be done in writing.  There's no talk about
assignment in the Contributor Terms though, it's a grant of rights.

Cheers