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Collateral damage of bankruptcy

Authored by: Wol on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 06:12 PM EDT

Isn't it a quirk of US law that copy rights have to be transferred IN WRITING?

So the author should just be able to take the new "owner" to court and
ask them to produce the relevant paper trail. If the old owner didn't have them
then the new owner doesn't have them, and an order from a bankruptcy court isn't
(or shouldn't) be enough to make up for a missing transfer...

A bit different from the SCOG/Novell bankruptcy fiasco where the Judge at least
could argue "what is an executory contract?" (or whatever the term
was). It's a bit harder to argue with "Where's the piece of paper that
Statute says you require?".

Cheers,
Wol

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Collateral damage of bankruptcy - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 06 2013 @ 09:56 PM EDT

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