[Arm-netbook] A20 and A10 NAND

luke.leighton luke.leighton at gmail.com
Fri May 31 21:13:38 BST 2013


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Philip Hands <phil at hands.com> wrote:

> 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.

 i've been speaking to my friend who knows a bit more about this: an
unauthorised employee cannot sign away copyright, it has to be a
Director.  what happens to an employee that *tries* to make
unauthorised transfers of copyright is up to the company...



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