On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In a message dated 4/27/2009 11:12:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > > Yes, and, absent any agreement to the contrary, any one of those same > > authors may grant a free licence.>> > > -------- > > I'm very suspicious of this claim. > If I and seven other own a piece of property, I alone cannot sell it to a > prospective buyer. The same would hold of copyright. Although each owner > has a copyright, a single owner cannot grant away the entire right to a > third > party.
http://depts.washington.edu/uwcopy/Creating_Copyright/Ownership_Factors/Joint.php To "sell it to a prospective buyer" would be equivalent to the grant of an exclusive license. To "grant an easement on the property" would be closer to the grant of a nonexclusive license. However, the analogy fails to some extent, because it's not physically possible for multiple people to enjoy the entirety of physical property simultaneously in the same way that this is possible for intellectual property. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
