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RE: Copyright statements in drafts



At 4:25 PM -0400 6/2/04, Scott Bradner wrote:
I think that the copyrigt statement (not the "all rights reserved"
line Donald points out though) needs to be in all IDs

my logic follows the requirement that the author give the IETF the
right to publish as an ID and thus must transfer the non exclusive limited
right to publish the ID - the IETF has a copyright (limited use etc) on
the actual ID as published even though the author retains all
other copyright rights - this also makes it clear that the ID
can not just be grabbed by someone (outside the IETF) for their
own (unatributed) use

As an archair lawyer, I would say that this makes absolutely no sense at all. Copyright is atomic unless stated otherwise. If you say "Copyright ISOC", you have no "other copyright rights".


Before we start telling people that they will retain some rights even if they assign the copyright to ISOC, we need to get a legal opinion from the IETF lawyers.

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