The articles are a bit off the mark, I would suggest. TBL sold a signed copy of it, not the code itself. Being the inventor the thing means he can pull in the $5million. I don't a 'sylvano' NFT version of it would get the same amount. ;-)
"On 30 April 1993, CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain. Later, CERN made a release available with an open licence, a more sure way to maximise its dissemination. These actions allowed the web to flourish." - https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web sylvano On Sat, 2021-07-03 at 10:10 +1000, Roger Clarke wrote: > > On 2/7/21 12:50 am, Stephen Loosley wrote: > > > Tim Berners-Lee’s NFT of world wide web source code sold for > > > $5.4m ... > > On 3/7/21 9:36 am, Tom Worthington wrote: > > It isn't owned by CERN? > > It's a complicated discussion, based partly on the meaning of 'it'. > > Firstly, it's a bundle of things. > > But I guess the focus is on 'the code'. > > Neither data nor software is real estate or a chattel, so to the > extent > that the notion of ownership applies, it's a question of ownership of > copyright in one or more works. > > Copyright-ownership in the first 1990 code would be tricky to > establish. > > And there's a good chance that CERN gave its blessing a long time ago > to > whatever TBL wanted to do with it. > > In any case, CERN gets more than enough taxpayers' money for its > decades-long, 'high'-science', Alice-in-Wonderland experiments, the > history of the Web is an irrelevance, and it would seem unlikely to > assert its ownership even if it has a strong case. > > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
