Re: Assignment of Copyright in Cyberspace

From: James Rogers <jetan[_at_]ionet.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:17:24 -0500 (CDT)

On 4/6/98, Juliann Krute <juliann[_at_]people-are.strange.com> wrote:
>
> Although this is hardly a novel issue, it is one that I am seeing more
> and more frequently in the online world. Author A starts a project
> (presume here a non-profit web page on a specific topic). Author A gets
> bored with the project, Author B offers to maintain the pages and update
> them, etc. Author A says in an online chat "I can't be bothered to
> update the pages anymore but I don't care if you want to go ahead."
>
> Has an effective transfer of copyright taken place?

Would a simpler model be to consider them both joint authors?

                                        James

James Michael Rogers
jetan[_at_]ionet.net Received on Tue Apr 07 1998 - 15:16:55 GMT