[Arm-netbook] A20 and A10 NAND

[Philip Hands]

"luke.leighton" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:02 AM, mike.valk at gmail.com
> <mike.valk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> BTW. I know it's a thin line. But if the copyright holder is
>> non-existent, then there is no copyright right?
>
>  oo.  that's a veery interesting question.  has allwinner assigned
> copyright to that non-existent company??
>
>> Another questionable thought. What about registering "Reuuimlla
>> Technology Co., Ltd." at the Chinese  authorities (chamber of
>> commerce) and claim copyright as stated in the code.
>
>  OUCH!!

Well, since the Berne Convention resulted in most countries not needing
formal copyright notices, I suspect (although IANAL, so this is not
legal advice) that a broken copyright notice makes very little
difference to the copyright status of a work.

Also, putting someone else's name on a copyright statement seems very
unlikely to count as performing a proper copyright assignment.
Creating an entity of the same name to match a copyright notice after
the event really shouldn't cut any ice with anyone, but as I said IANAL.

Cheers, Phil.
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