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> well, the copyright to the software resides with Confluent That's not at all what he's asking. To quote from the article: "And to be clear: I’m not asking
by Lazare 8y ago
> well, the copyright to the software resides with Confluent
That's not at all what he's asking. To quote from the article: "And to be clear: I’m not asking who owns the copyright (that part is clear, as it is for open source) — I’m asking who owns the copy of the work that I have modified?"
> Does Bryan really not understand how copyright assignment works?
Bryan's understanding of copyright seems to be quite correct. Your understanding of his point seems to be lacking.
- IAmEveryone 8y agoI believe there’s a lot of confusion around the term “ownership”. There just might not be an answer because nobody ever “owns the copy”. As HN is quick to point out when discussing ad blockers or scihub, data isn’t a thing that you can own. You may own the physical medium, and sometimes said ownership is linked to a license (first sale doctrine, as one example), but it isn’t necessarily so.
- icebraining 8y ago> nobody ever “owns the copy”. Per US Code §117, which Cantrill links to, there is a concept of "the owner of a copy of a computer program" (direct quote from the law). So that can't be right.