On 2013/Aug/07, at 6:21 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote: > At 06:04 PM 7/08/2013, Kim Holburn wrote: >> like from the author in return for regular payments of royalties. In >> other words ... the author would retain the copyright. >> >> I don't believe so. Authors rights were only under sufferance. > > When a 3rd party is involved, say a publisher, the rights are > whatever are negotiated in the contract. The author holds the rights > automatically upon creation -- not the state
Well technically, the state gives monopoly rights to the author by legislation. > or anyone else. It's up > to the creator to decide what they want to do with those rights -- > assign them to a 3rd party, give the work away for free, destroy it, > edit it, make derivative works from it (film from the book, e.g.). Now yes, 1710 not so much. -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
