On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> wrote: > Anthony wrote: > > >(By the way, to answer Frederick more directly, the laws surrounding > joint > >authorship are *not* relatively universal. In the UK, joint authorship > works > >in almost exactly the *opposite* way. In order to exploit a joint > work, you > >need the permission of *all* the joint authors, not just one.) > > Yes, I talked with Francis Davey about this and he said the same. > The joint work rules are an American pecularity and generate lots of > well- > paid legal work drafting contracts to get around them. Everywhere > except > the USA there isn't this problem. >
Does anyone have insight into how Wikipedia deal with this? Is it even a concern for them, and if not, why not? 80n
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