On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <paiva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> narendra sisodiya said on Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:18:14PM +0530,: > > > there are 3-4 more book on next desk, everywhere you can find that > > copyright (and thus full power) goes with publisher... > > Sir, > > Look at "ownership" or immoveable property - a piece of land, a > residential building, agricultural land, bunglaow, etc. > > You may be the owner. You can rent it out to A, and assign the right > to collect the rent to B. You can mortgage it to C. And assign the > right to redeem the mortgage to D. > > So, you have no possession of the property - it with the tenant. You > have no income from the property - it goes to B. YOu have even > mortgaged, and no right to redeem. Now, you can actually sell the > property. ;-D > > All this is possible because you have a right, called "ownership" in > the property in question. > > Like this, the publisher gets teh "copyright" because it was owned by > the author.The author could have licensed only a part, instead of > assigning the whole of that ownership. The publisher can now > "license" all or some of the components of the copyright. This is how > the film industry works. > > The producer (copyright owner) assigns the right to distribute the > film in certain areas to distributors, who pay him money. Sometimes, > this assignment may be permanent. Sometimes, the producer will assign > all his rights in perpetuity. SOmetimes, he will assign only "world > distribution rights". That is a feature, not a bug. > > If the above is complicated, go through Raj's posts again. THey are > simpler. > > The GPL only utilises the concept of copyright, makes it stand on its > head, and gives you more rights than the copyright law allows. > > This is possible only because copyright subsists in teh GPL'ed > work. Deny the GPL, and you do not have any rights in the work - not > even to retain a copy of that work on your computer. > > yes dear, i know all these things, same thing i am also saying, in MOST of the case, publisher takes copyright of book. -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘ _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
