On Sun, Mar 29, 2026 at 11:01:25PM +0200, José Manuel García-Patos wrote: > Björn Kettunen wrote: > > > Copyright assignment doesn't even work in most European > > countries. I.e. if you're in Germany you can't sign your copyright away. > > Which is why the FSFE suggests to use Fiduciary Licence Agreements. > > Anyway that's OT but I just realize again how out of touch the FSF is in > > the global sense. > > I know very little about German law, but if it is in any way similar > to Spanish law, there are two different concepts that are often > confused: authorship and copyright [...]
This is pretty similar in Germany: there is the author right (Urheberrecht), which passes to someone else by inheritance (!), and there are several flavours of usage rights, which you can cede individually, possibly in exchange for something. Usage rights can be (!) revoked. Cheers [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutzungsrecht -- tomás
