GPL compliance

[Alexander Skwar]

ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> Gary W. Swearingen schrieb:
>>> Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> writes:


>>> (eg, he sold his rights or was an employee who
>>> never had any).
>> 
>> Not possible, as far as I know.
> 
> Authors can, in fact, sell their copyrights, in their entirety.

Authors CANNOT do this. An author is an author and will always be
an author (reg. one work). He CANNOT sell *ALL* the rights. It's
simply not possible. And there's really no point in arguing this.
See what Mario wrote. See what Daniel wrote. This tells me, that
I'm not that far off by my understanding of the law.

>  It
> happens in the music business all the time.  An author can sell or
> transfer all of his or her rights to a work, 

No, he cannot. Not *ALL* the rights. Maybe some important ones, but
just not *all* the rights. Can't be done. As simple as this.

> in their entirety, should
> the author so choose.  Having done so, the author would have no more
> rights to that work as any other common person.

Sorry, but that's plain wrong. You seem to have a *VERY* wrong
understanding of Copyrightlaw. Maybe your understanding is correct
for some places in the world, but not the ones I care about.

Alexander Skwar
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