On Sun Jun 06, 2004 at 21:44:21 +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: >On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:36:10PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:29:42AM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: >> > >> > This isn't true -- copyright law allows for joint ownership of copyright for >> > a work, i.e. both owners have full rights to copy the work under any licence >> > conditions they wish, independently of each other. >> >> Who has standing in the event of infringement? See my other recent missive >> on the topic for more details of the issues involved. > >Here's another example of joint ownership -- Zope Corporation's Contributor >Agreement: >http://dev.zope.org/DevHome/CVS/Contributor.pdf (FAQ at >http://dev.zope.org/CVS/ContributorFAQ). >
I was under the impression that in Australian copyright law there could only be one copyright owner. (That could be either a person or a comany). www.copyright.org.au seems to have lots of information about this. They also have really good fact sheets. One of the ones I read implied that joint copyright was not valid in anyway. In such a case copyright is held by the initial author. I may be wrong, but check out the website, and remember that Australian copyright is not (yet[1]) identical to American copyright law. Benno [1] Until the FTA goes through... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
