On 15/07/2014 9:05 PM, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 11:12:57 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
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.
A...
Does it make a difference a. where the author lives and b. where the
logo is hosted?
As far as I can work out, its a no for both questions.
My problem is that every time that I search for information on German
copyright law I get information about Urheberrecht, often with a note
saying that it should not be confused with copyright ><
This makes it hard to plan a polite approach.
A...
