Hi Eric, On 2/8/07, E. Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unfortunately, "being practical about things" isn't our right. Copyright is to protect the creators of works, not the users (and keep lawyers employed).
I think you miss my point. If you have a wide and collection of "copyright" owners that you can't trace you loose the ability to protect anybodies copyright. To enforce the copyright you have to go to court, to go to court you need to coordinate all the copyright owners. What happens if you can't trace someone? What happens if someone objects to taking action? If you can't enforce copyright then its all the creators of the work that effectively loose their rights. Copyright assignment to leads or a body overseeing a project seems like a good default position to take to avoid the proliferation of minor copyright owners as if it action had to take then coordinate action would be much easier. If you can't act then your can't protect the body of work. If contributors want to not retain copyright then it should be the case that they also take responsibility for that work, and are traceable till the copyright expires, which is a very very long time. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@openscenegraph.net http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
