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Steve Bliss wrote:
> How are parts individually copyrighted?
If anybody has copyright to a _part_, it must by default be
LEGO. But the copyright to a rendering of a part in one or
a number of LDraw files is held jointly by all the involved
parties (ignoring the difficult question of exactly how
small pieces of work constitutes a "work" in copyright
sense).
> I think the only sensible way for LDraw.org to address IP
> on the library is to thank each contributor for their
> contribution, require them to grant some form of
> non-exclusive, non-revocable license. And then grant user
> licenses to the whole library, and all of its parts.
Agreed. But nothing prevents the contributors from
insisting on a license that requires that the user license
is the same as the one LDraw.org gets.
Jacob
--
"I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are two matters
on which I hope enlightenment. One is quantum electro-dynamics and the
other is turbulence of fluids. About the former, I am rather optimistic."
Sir Horace Lamb.
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