Since I hope there will be several projects comming from the same idea I
would not like to have the copyright in the hands of just one person.
Especially since all stages of the work (writing - drawing - modelling -
animating - programming) are in fact endproducts on its own. The only
difference being one can do different stuf with it. I want people to have
protection and still be able to post it on the web where anyone can join. Or
maybe there will only be a group of people working on it, still they need to
be protected. But I would like it to be posted on the web. Personally that
is.
But every construction has it dangers:
- A company means business and doing everything for profit.
- A person could be forcing the project in his direction only
-giving the copyright to the group could mean chaos
This project could be flourishing because of chaos.
Jeroen Goulooze
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That's true and deserves to be hollered -- I would personally never
again sign a work-for-hire myself; I've done it in the past and was
burned to ashes every time ... even if the organization resolves to
"copyleft" the collective work, whatever _that_ means (if you're gonna
sign, this should be spelled out precisely), by having them the
copyright holder and not you, you've pretty much relinquished control
over your work. I think the Torvalds model is much better -- best to
let a human individual heading the project keep the copyright.
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