copyright assignment

She said a medical professional seeking to use the copyright assignment to censor a review would have at least two serious legal problems.

That's essentially what's being proffered under these copyright assignment deals.

That would be the only downside to the lack of copyright assignment I would think.

Blanket, prospective copyright assignments can be valid, but only in certain circumstances.

One of the main disagreements involves different views of copyright assignment.

Sun's copyright assignment policies and bureaucratic code review process significantly hindered community participation in the project.

So what do you think about a policy of sneaking or pressuring copyright assignment to the person you're supposed to be evaluating, Ostracus?

To further reduce the barrier to participation, Nokia plans to accept code from contributors without requiring copyright assignment.

Copyright Assignment: The contributors transfer the copyright of their contribution to the project.

Its goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements.

Under Sun's leadership, bureaucratic barriers and concerns about the project's copyright assignment policy impeded participation in OOo development.

Unlike the OOo project, no copyright assignment is required in order to contribute to LibreOffice.

Dr. Cirka told Ars that he has never attempted to remove a fraudulent review using the copyright assignment policy.

The presiding judge, however, ruled against their agreement being work for hire, based in large part on the legal requirement that "copyright assignments must be in writing."

Other projects that use copyright assignments but which promise not to distribute the software as open core include the GNU Project and OpenOffice.org.

However, OpenOffice.org requires a copyright assignment for contributions to the main code base; this allows Sun to create proprietary versions of the software (notably StarOffice).

The move was necessitated by Oracle's failure to address the governance problems that had plagued OOo under Sun's leadership, particularly the project's controversial copyright assignment policies.

The problems-which related to governance issues, copyright assignment policies, and the difficulty of getting certain code contributions merged-festered under Oracle's brief stewardship of OOo.

The VisionMobile report itself acknowledges that none of the projects included in the study require copyright assignment and that copyright assignment is probably unnecessary.

The Free Software Foundation holds copyright of much of the XEmacs code because of prior copyright assignment during merge attempts and cross-development.

The copyright to Wget belongs to the Free Software Foundation, whose policy is to require copyright assignments for all non-trivial contributions to GNU software.

As for the copyright claims, the complaint asks the court to declare that, even if the copyright assignment is valid, the posting of the reviews is allowed by copyright's fair use doctrine.

In 1976, an amendment was made to the Copyright Act that permits authors to terminate grants of copyright assignments and licenses that were made on or after January 1, 1978.

Since the newspapers did not provide any evidence of such copyright assignments, the appellate court ruled in this case that they did not hold the copyright on the text of the individual copied articles.

Since the XChat project has not required copyright assignment, the maintainer (Peter Železný, or zed) of the XChat project does not actually hold copyright to the entirety of the code.