>On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Joseph Pietro Riolo wrote:
>
>> > 6. How to get around restrictive copyright legally
>> >
>>http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#Harnad/Oppenheim
>
>> I have a great doubt about the legality on the second statement in the
>> section 6.1 (saying that an author is not bound by any future copyright
>> transfer agreement). How do you arrive at that conclusion? Which
>> law says that you are not bound by any future copyright transfer
>> agreement?
Stevan has already answered this query most eloquently. I would just add
that one hardly needs to cite supporting cases to confirm that someone can
assign or license copyright that (s)he lawfully owns to a third party
irrespective of what (s)he has done with the materials up until the
copyright assignment/licence is signed.
Professor Charles Oppenheim
Dept of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leics LE11 3TU
Tel 01509-223065
Fax 01509-223053
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