NITRC Licensing Forum: open-discussion

RE: Declaring a copyright holder

Christian Haselgrove — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:13:24 GMT

Thanks. I was a bit confused by institutional copyrights that you see floating around now and then, but, that link clears things up a bit. I'm sure if a situation calls for an institutional copyright (which my case doesn't), it would be clear.

RE: Declaring a copyright holder

Yaroslav Halchenko — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:17:25 GMT

IANAL but if you are the solely copyright holder (e.g. not your institution ;-) ) you can just give ownership to your code to anyone, but usually it seems to require a document stating it in writing: e.g. look how contributors agreements are done etc. quick google led me to
http://producingoss.com/en/copyright-assignment.html which seems to be a sensible description.

why do you care though? do they want you to transfer the rights to them? even if you own the copyright, they have control of the code (besides re-licensing it under an incompatible license)

Declaring a copyright holder

Christian Haselgrove — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:28:46 GMT

I did some work for an organization, and I'd like to give that organization control of the work. Can I transfer the copyright to a third party? How? Is this something that is routinely done?

Welcome to Open-Discussion

Christian Haselgrove — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:17:33 GMT

Welcome to the licensing open-discussion forum for discussion of licensing issues.

The thread that led to the creation of this project can be found on the [url=forum.php?thread_id=2483&forum_id=2]NITRC Community forum[/url].