Re: Assignment of Copyright in Cyberspace

To Juliann Krute's <juliann[_at_]people-are.strange.com> hypothetical involving one author of a Web site giving over responsibility to a second author, James Rogers <jetan[_at_]ionet.net> asked:
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> Would a simpler model be to consider them both joint authors?

IMHO, joint authorship is almost never a simpler model, since it vests in each author the full ability to modify and exploit the work without the permission of the other author(s), and requires that each author account to the other(s) and share the proceeds from the exploitation of the work. This generally creates an uneasy if not untenable relationship.

Bob Cumbow
<cumbr[_at_]perkinscoie.com> Received on Wed Apr 08 1998 - 15:31:43 GMT