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. -- Bryan J Smith - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith E-mail: b.j.smith at ieee.org or me at bjsmith.me
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