[Foundation-l] Let's switch to CC-BY-SA

[Anthony]

On 9/11/07, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> On 11/09/2007, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> > > In any plausible situation where the GFDL is viewed as valid at all,
> > > this is more "flagrantly wrong" rather than "not perfectly clean". You
> > > can't simply reappropriate people's intellectual property and declare
> > > that henceforth it will be used in a way they didn't consent to...
> > >
> > Unless you're a joint author...
>
> Surely [selling, relicensing, releasing, whatever] a work of joint
> authorship requires the consent of [both/all] authors?
>
Nope.

<blockquote>if no joint authorship agreement has been formalized it
will be presumed that the following principles shall apply.

   1. Each co-author will own an equal ownership share in the work.
This will occur even if one of the co-authors has contributed a
greater quantity of the work than the other co-authors.
   2. Each co-author will own an "undivided" interest in the entire
work. This means that if the publishing project consists of
illustrations and text that the artist and the writer will each own
fifty percent of the entire work, i.e., the art and the text.
   3. Any co-author, without the permission of their fellow
co-authors, may grant non-exclusive rights to the work to third
parties. However, a co-author may only grant exclusive rights to the
work to third parties if the co-author obtains the prior consent of
the other co-authors.
   4. Each co-author has a duty to account to the other co-authors for
any profits obtained from the exploitation of the work.
   5. A co-author has the right to assign his/her ownership share in
the work to a third party or to bequeath his/her ownership share to
his/her heirs.
   6. Each co-author will be entitled to equal authorship credit for
the work upon its publication.</blockquote>