[Wikipedia-l] Re: What would Richard Stallman say? (IP users)

[Till Westermayer]

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>Till Westermayer <till at tillwe.de> writes:

>> Depends. In the US, you can, in Germany, you can't.

>I guess you meant the "urheberrecht" in Germany - it is
>conceptionally different from the US copyright.  The one who
>creates a work owns the "urheberrecht" and he or she can grant the
>right to make use of the work to somebody else.  That's it
>roughly.

Yeah. And if a person in Germany creates a work, s/he will own the
urheberrecht and the copyright. Even if s/he seels the copyright, s/he
will still own the urheberrecht. As far as I know, this situation
doesn't exist in the USA, and I think some of the confusion about this
topic is related to that non-universal distinction.

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