Academic publishing under Droit D'Auteur

On Sunday I was in Brussels, drafting a response to A Very August UK Academic Institution over their claim that they needed assignment of all rights in some work I'd done.

"Hang on", I thought, "I'm sitting in a Droit D'Auteur jurisdiction. They can neither demand nor assign all rights. The concept is not so much illegal as a syntax error. How do academics, and academic publishers, do it here?"

Well?

Mike Holderness
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike Received on Tue Feb 11 1997 - 22:23:18 GMT