The interpretation referred by Sudhanwa is the distribution of copyrighted product.
Legally speaking, Copyright in simpler term is a right over the intellectual property to prevent reproducing copyrighted work without the permission of the person who creates the Intellectual Property/work or any person who acquires right over Intellectual Property; and Licence on other hand is permission to use the Intellectual Property in specified manner stipulated in Licence agreement. Licence agreement is the most necessary piece of legal instrument to protect individual's right over the intellectual property. Any person aggrieved from any violation of respective work or terms of agreement may initiate legal action against the breacher before the courts of law. Kamal Dave Advocate --- On Wed, 3/3/10, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa....@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa....@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Protecting my copyright > To: "Raj Mathur" <r...@linux-delhi.org> > Cc: il...@frodo.hserus.net > Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 6:32 PM > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Raj > Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> > wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Gora Mohanty <g...@sarai.net> > wrote: > >> Copyright is entirely distinct from licensing. If > I write a piece > >> of code, or acquire copyright over it by some > other means, I can > >> choose to license it to whomever, under whatever > conditions I deem > >> fit. > >> > >> Legal eagles can chip in, but roughly speaking, > copyright has to do > >> with ownership, while a licence has to do with > what terms and > >> conditions that you allow other people to use > things under. > > > > Not a legal (or any other specie, genus or phylum) of > eagle, but > > technically you may own copyright to a work without > having the rights > > to license it. For instance, when you write a book, > the copyright > > vests with you but the licence to redistribute is with > the publisher. > > I'm also not too clear on how that works, but > practically that's what > > you end up with: copyright with one person, licensing > rights with > > another. > > > > It is not necessary that the author keeps the copyrights > himself. > The publishing and distribution is another ball game. > > eg. Raj Mathur can write a book and give copyrights to > IlugD. > IlugD will then give publishing rights to the publisher. > Publisher may give distribution rights to various agencies > may be > according to various criteria like statewise, sectorwise > (academic, > commercial, students, libraries etc) and so on. > > As such, author, copyright holder, publisher, distributor > can be > differeent entities having different roles and bound by > their > contracts with the concerned parties. > > I hope the situation is clear from this example. > > Regards, > -Sudhanwa > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
