On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 01:26:07PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Esp. in Germany and probably other (European) countries, copyrights
in
general are not assignable at all [1], which means they probably are
legally void, a fact which could be legally exploited to fight a license
at court.
In the UK they are assignable but there are also specific rights authors have
that are not usually assigned and not needed for copyright enforcement but
which do deal with things like removal of authorship credits, use of the work
in a demeaning way etc.
Alan