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For usage rights, probably so. But a transfer has stricter requirements in most countries, and it doesn't mean he agreed to all the other clauses in the contrac
by n2d4 4y ago
For usage rights, probably so. But a transfer has stricter requirements in most countries, and it doesn't mean he agreed to all the other clauses in the contract that he hadn't even seen at the time.
- causi 4y agoIndeed this is quite messy. Julian was a fool for agreeing to something he hadn't read, and Carl was a fool for paying him before he signed it.
- europeanguy 4y agoCarl was the smart one, by the sound of it they still would be going back and forth on the meaning of fair.
- causi 4y agoYeah, I don't understand how this could've taken more than a couple of e-mails when the work was already done. Why the heck wouldn't Julian ask Markus to step in once he became uncomfortable with e-mailing Carl? Why didn't he just say "ok this took me X hours, so X euros is fair compensation"? It's very hard for me to read this in a way where Julian doesn't come off as, at best, an idiot, and at worst, an asshole who thinks writing two pages of text is equivalent to the thousands of hours of labor the five Mojang employees had put into the project at the time.
- vintermann 4y agoI'm not sure the contract is even legal. In the EU "moral rights" cannot be signed away, and in many EU countries they cannot even be waived. From what I understand, in Sweden they can only be waived in limited, specific ways, and the contract Julian posted demands he waive everything he can. Whether it's legal or not it's extremely dodgy. It's pretty much a demand of unconditional surrender. And we know C418 got better terms than these, since he retains copyright to his music.