I think you're on the right track, but these are pretty draconian. Thoughts interleaved.
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 05:57:44PM -0700, DJA wrote: > > 3) Copyrights are non-renewable, non-assignable, non-inheritable, and > non-transferable. Copyrights cannot be held as collateral, traded, > sold, bartered, or used as currency. > I write a great novel hoping to put my kids through college. It hits big, but I keel over. My estate gets bukis (sp?) under your plan. Or I'm a great writer, but I really need a publisher to push my work. So I need to be able to sign it over. However, corporations aren't the same as people, even though our courts pretend otherwise. So my plan would be to start a clock on the copyright the second the author assigns it (or dies) and the new owner can treat it like property, but it ends in 15 years. That includes family. > 4) A Derivative of, improvement to, addendum to, variation of, > or adaptation of the original copyrighted work implies no extension, > renewal or transfer of the original work, but stands only as an > original work in and of itself, which is granted its own copyright > under the same terms as rules (1-4) above. > Excellent. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
