Tomasz Wegrzanowsk wrote:
Contract of transfer of material copyrights requires written form to be valid.
The server is in the US. Thus only US law (for all activity within the US) and International law (for all activity between the server and those contributing outside of US jurisdiction) applies.
-- mav
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 07:04:14PM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Tomasz Wegrzanowsk wrote:
Contract of transfer of material copyrights requires written form to be valid.
The server is in the US. Thus only US law (for all activity within the US) and International law (for all activity between the server and those contributing outside of US jurisdiction) applies.
If it's copyrighted by anyone living in Europe, European laws apply.
Jimmy-
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
If it's copyrighted by anyone living in Europe, European laws apply.
European laws apply in Europe. They have no impact on me.
Continental European copyright law cannot be transferred, only a subset of usage rights can be. This very much applies to you if you intend to distribute material to European readers under legally valid terms. The FSF Europe has come up with a special agreement for Europeans to transfer usage rights (instead of copyright) to the GNU project, called the "Fiduciary License Agreement":
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/fla/index.en.html
Regards,
Erik
Erik Moeller wrote:
Jimmy-
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
If it's copyrighted by anyone living in Europe, European laws apply.
European laws apply in Europe. They have no impact on me.
Continental European copyright law cannot be transferred, only a subset of usage rights can be. This very much applies to you if you intend to distribute material to European readers under legally valid terms.
You're right about that. My answer was too simplistic by far.
--Jimbo
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