17 Mar
2010
17 Mar
'10
3:33 a.m.
>There is NO argument possible to the explicit
transfer of IP rights.
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, John Foust wrote:
Do you mean company-to-company, or do you mean
licenses, and adherence
to shrinkwrap agreements?
If the agreement says you can't transfer ownership, then how
can a collector even acquire someone else's old stuff?
I'm referring to the ownership of the copyright of the work.
There are, indeed, some questions of the legality of "adhesion contracts",
such as shrinkwrap agreements, and even some issues on transfer of
ownership of a licensed copy.
Placing a work on a site for anonymous download without the consent of the
owner of the copyright is certainly NOT a "gray area".
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred