George Herbert wrote: > Used relative to copyright law, the term unambiguously means what Mike is > saying, the rights that Europe (and others) have assigned to actual authors > distinct from copyright owners etc. > > The specific term as used in copyright law (as Mike says, a "term of the > art" in that field) has no legal utility in the United States, as those > rights in question are not acknowledged by US copyright law or precedent. > It is acknowledged in section 106A, but that seems to have been added more as a form of lip-service to international treaties. At the same time US law seems to be at pains to make sure that it has no meaningful legal effect.
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