On 7 September 2010 22:59, <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: >> 2) The "worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable >> license to do any act that is restricted by copyright over anything >> within the Contents, whether in the original medium or any other" >> gives them that. >> > > I got far enough through the Australian Copyright Act at the weekend to > discover that this won't extend to Australia. > Assignment of Australian copyright cannot be done over the internet. > There are new High Court rulings regarding digital signatures which will > have to be read to confirm this, but click-through is unlikely to meet the > standard required.
It's the same here in Europe (or at least in Poland), a copyright assignment can only be done in writing. There's no talk about assignment in the Contributor Terms though, it's a grant of rights. Cheers _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
