Re: [News] SFLC Responds to Copyright Misconceptions, Presents Moglen Talk

[RJack]

RJack wrote:
> Hyman Rosen wrote:
> > On 2/10/2010 10:39 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> > > Erik Andersen's alleged (and fraudulent in fact) claim of
> > > ownership
> >
> > <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gaiman_v._McFarlane> In addition to 
> > the copyright notices, McFarlane registered copyright on the issues
> >  and the books. ... McFarlane’s registrations no more revealed an 
> > intent to claim copyright in Gaiman’s contributions, as distinct
> > from McFarlane’s own contributions as compiler and illustrator,
> > than the copyright notices did. The significance of registration is
> > that it is a prerequisite to a suit to enforce a copyright.
> >
> > GPL skeptics are so wrong, in so many ways.


"37 CFR § 202.3   Registration of copyright.

(a) General.

(1) This section prescribes conditions for the registration of
copyright, and the application to be made for registration under
sections 408 and 409 of title 17 of the United States Code, as amended
by Pub. L. 94–553.

(2) For the purposes of this section, the terms audiovisual work ,
compilation , copy , derivative work , device , fixation , literary work
, motion picture , phonorecord , pictorial, graphic and sculptural works
, process , sound recording , and their variant forms, have the meanings
set forth in section 101 of title 17. The term author includes an
employer or other person for whom a work is “made for hire” under
section 101 of title 17.

(3) For the purposes of this section, a copyright claimant is either:

(i) The author of a work;

(ii) A person or organization that has obtained ownership of all rights
under the copyright initially belonging to the author."

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1) Is Erik Anderson "the author" of release tarball BusyBox,
v.0.60.3.tar.bz2?

3) Is Erik Anderson "a person" that has obtained ownership of all rights
in release BusyBox, v.0.60.3.tar.bz2?

Sincerely,
RJack