On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:15:11 +0530
Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]>
> wrote:
[...]
> > Legal eagles can chip in, but roughly speaking, copyright has
> > to do with ownership, while a licence has to do with what terms
> > and conditions that you allow other people to use things under.
> 
> Not a legal (or any other specie, genus or phylum) of eagle, but
> technically you may own copyright to a work without having the
> rights to license it.  For instance, when you write a book, the
> copyright vests with you but the licence to redistribute is with
> the publisher.
[...]

I thought that issues like exclusive redistribution rights for the
publisher came through a contract signed between the author and the
publisher, but again could be wrong.

How about a legal beagle, if not an eagle. Or, maybe an illegal
eagle. Ki gal hai, pappe?

Regards,
Gora

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