Re: An alternative to levies on copyright

A Dom, 2004-02-29 às 00:05, Andrew Rendle escreveu:
> João Miguel Neves wrote:
> > As for the non transferability, I don't see the issue. I don't
> > understand why a "no exclusive deals" implies "no tranferability of
> > rights".
> > 
> 
> It doesn't, but for "no exclusive licences" to be useful, it would have 
> to be accompanied by "no transfer of rights", otherwise a publisher 
> could simply insist upon a transfer of rights rather than an exclusive 
> licence, which would defeat the whole point of banning them.
> 
OK, transfer of copyright is an exclusive deal by another name. It
wouldn't be acceptable. I don't know any legislation were you can do an
exclusive deal that's different from a transfer of copyright.
Remember that we only need to make distribution rights non-exclusive and
non-transferable.
-- 
						João Miguel Neves

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