D logo copyright

[Alix Pexton via Digitalmars-d]

I've been researching what is necessary to transfer the copyright of the 
D logo to Digital Mars, which is complicated by international issues.

It seems that the term "copyright" is often aliased to the German 
"Deutsches Urheberrecht" which is what we call the "moral rights of the 
author" in the UK.

This is something very different from copyright as it is inalienable 
from the originating creator and not something that can be transferred 
other that by inheritance.

This makes me wonder if previous attempts to negotiate a new copyright 
for the logo have gone unanswered because the terminology used has lost 
something in translation.

Do any of our native German D users know what the right terminology for 
the international concept of "copyright" is?

European copyright law is something that is currently being debated for 
unification and there is no actual legislation in place so any 
negotiations regarding the logo have to be conducted based on the common 
ground between German and U.S. laws.

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