On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Angelo Schneider wrote:
> In the EU it is not possible to transfer a copyright.
A distinction without a difference; though the copyright itself
may not be transferrable freely, the *droit d'exploitation* is.
Anything else would be intolerably restrictive of modern commerical
publishing, which needs the power of transferring such.
Nor are copyrights 100% transferrable in the U.S. either: the
author and his heirs have an absolute, unwaivable, inalienable
right to recapture the copyright between 35 and 40 years after
transferring it. This is intended to benefit authors who
sold at a low price their works which later became much more valuable.
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John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"[O]n the whole I'd rather make love than shoot guns [...]"
--Eric Raymond
