[LINK] 0wning your copyrights

[Alan L Tyree]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:48:56 +1000
Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:

> I don't know, I thought clicking a button was equivalent to
> "signing" a contract?  Isn't that how EULAs work?  And aren't they
> binding contracts, even if you can't read them before you open the
> packet?
Copyright Act:
196  Assignments and licences in respect of copyright

             (1)  Copyright is personal property and, subject to this
section, is transmissible by assignment, by will and by devolution by
operation of law.

             (2)  An assignment of copyright may be limited in any way,
including any one or more of the following ways:

                     (a)  so as to apply to one or more of the classes
of acts that, by virtue of this Act, the owner of the copyright has the
exclusive right to do (including a class of acts that is not separately
specified in this Act as being comprised in the copyright but falls
within a class of acts that is so specified);

                     (b)  so as to apply to a place in or part of
Australia;

                     (c)  so as to apply to part of the period for
which the copyright is to subsist.

             (3)  An assignment of copyright (whether total or partial)
does not have effect unless it is in writing signed by or on behalf of
the assignor.

             (4)  A licence granted in respect of a copyright by the
owner of the copyright binds every successor in title to the interest
in the copyright of the grantor of the licence to the same extent as
the licence was binding on the grantor.


> 
> On 2006 Aug 02, at 4:35 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> > I wonder how far that would get in the US where transfer of  
> > copyright has to be by specific written instrument.  This is one
> > of the key arguments in SCO/IBM and SCO/Novell.
> >
> > Kim Holburn wrote:
> >> Interesting article in the beeb online about websites taking your  
> >> copyrights.
> >> Fighting sites that hijack rights
> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5224146.stm
> >> Related links:
> >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/passport/offending_material.htm
> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/03/30/all_your_data_and_biz/
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