On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 12:16 PM Jon "maddog" Hall via lpi-examdev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Frank,
>
>> But I'm not sure if "assignment" is applicable in all countries under all
>> circumstances. I'm not a lawyer but the (US-) copyright is IMHO different
>> from
>> e.g. german "Urheberrecht" and AFAIK you can never "lose" your
>> "Urheberrecht"
>> in Germany.
>
>
> IANAL either, but I seem to remember that the German law around copyright
> is "different".
> Nevertheless the German law apparently allows "enough" assignment to allow
> the GNU licenses to work and to allow multiple licenses to be applied to a
> single work.
> Perhaps a German knowledgeable about this could take a couple of minutes
> to explain this intricacy.
>

I think people are confused on exclusive v. non-exclusive, and 3+ different
variables as 1.
And contract law still allows various assignments and uses, even in Germany.

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