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Desktop Summit: Copyright assignments

Desktop Summit: Copyright assignments

Posted Aug 11, 2011 20:37 UTC (Thu) by ttonino (subscriber, #4073)
Parent article: Desktop Summit: Copyright assignments

What I am worried most about with assignment is the following case :

I assign copyrights to company A.

Company B comes along and sues A, and wins. A goes bankrupt and evil B gets the copyright.

This could not happen if A does not have the copyright on all code, as B cannot take what A does not own.


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