On 2/11/2010 8:25 PM, amicus_curious wrote:
So taking someone else's work and republishing it as a whole is not joint authorship? You are in an untenable position to be sure!
A joint work is created through the intention of all authors to form it. Without such intention, the work is not joint, it is collective, with copyright on each component owned by the author of the component, and copyright on the arrangement owned by the arrangers. For modifications made to existing components or their arrangement, copyright is owned by the original author and as well by the author making the change, as a derivative work. In fact, the concepts of derivative work and joint work are in certain ways opposite. A joint work is created through intention of co-authors, and each author has full rights to the work, while a derivative work is created with permission from the original author and then copyright in the result is held by both authors, and that work can be copied and distributed only with permission of both authors. The GPL speaks of modifications as derivative works. In no way does it speak of joint works, and therefore authors who use it as the license for code they produce have indicated that they are not creating a joint work. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
