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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978322610-05062008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>I don't think this exists in any license for a good reason:
the license is there to fix the conditions assosciated to the use and
distribution of a software covered by the copyright; of course the autors are
normally the copyright owners, but laws in almost all countries recognize that
authors working for an organization are transfering their copyright to the
copmpany employing them to do their work, and they are paid for
that.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978322610-05062008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>In addition many work contracts in IT are specifying
explicitly that the employees can't assign themselves a copyright for a work
they've done during the time they are employed and under contract, even if they
work at home in their free time, without prior authorization, except if their
own work is completely unrelated to their activity in the company. There's
a reason for that: the employee, when he's employed, has a large access to the
technology owned or used by the company and could use it to create a competitive
offer, without supporting the charges normally needed to support these
creations.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978322610-05062008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>However, some countries are still granting appropriate
credits to authors when they work in a company. This is not part of the
copyright and licensing schemes, but part of the moral right (which is almost
not recognizd in US and countries with custom law), however it is well known in
the area of scientific publications. Such right is generally part to protect
employees from abuse by their hierarchy, when they don't benefit of the
advantage of what they've done in terms of reputation, and evolution of job
positions and salaries or other advantages (like primes).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978322610-05062008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>So t</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=978322610-05062008><FONT
face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>his autor's right is better covered by the
right of workers (and their unions), but you have to remamber that this is not
an automatic right: it is still negociatable either within the contract between
the worker and the organizarion employing him, or within the internal regulation
negociated in the organiztion by worker representants, or by a policy negociated
in a branch to which the organization applies to. There are various legal
systems involved here depending on countries, but outside the domain of
publications and artistic creations where authors are named (and part of the
product itself covered by its licence because this adds a value to the product
itself) this is generally not written within licenses
themselves.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978322610-05062008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>But nothing forbids anyone to include, in a licence a
statement requiring to give and maintain credits to authors and forbid
reattributions (even if the copyright itself remains to the organization
employing the author). But in a cooperative work where others are contributing
to your creation, if you require that all participants give credit to their
effective authors, this will restrict organizations to participate when their
employees are normally not named: they don't want a public association between
the name, reputation and responsability of the organization and the name,
reputation and responsability of his worker in a contract or license whose
effect will have a much longer term (possibly unlimited) than the work contract
itself.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978322610-05062008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>Final note: the author name, used as a reference for a
creation, may be covered by another right: the right of trademarks. This is
common in the artistic domain, but it exists in almost all domains
giving value to the excellence of a work. By monetizing their names as a
trademark, the authors get additional funds but the name becomes transferable,
just like the right of usage and distribution covered by licenses and
copyright.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978322610-05062008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>May be what you're looking for is the Artistic
License.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>De :</B> Xavier Grehant
[mailto:xavier.grehant@gmail.com] <BR><B>Envoyé :</B> mercredi 4 juin
2008 16:14<BR><B>À :</B>
license-discuss@opensource.org<BR><B>Objet :</B> Individual authors
recognition<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Is there a license that forces distributions AND the copyright
holder to acknowledge the authors of the initial work?<BR><BR>The authors may
be different from the copyright holder. Typically the copyright holder is
their organization. Other people in the organization should not be able to
present the work as their own.<BR><BR>I know if this happens this is a problem
with the organization. Ideally, employees of an organization work together for
a common goal. The best way to make this happen in the facts is to make sure
they are individually recognized for their work. In addition, sometimes the
authors intervene in the license choice. If they have a way to protect
themselves, they will use it.<BR><BR>The idea would be something like the
zlib/libpng license <A
href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php"
target=_blank>http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php</A> but I'm
wondering about the scope of the zlib/libpng license. Do its restrictions also
apply to the copyright holder, and anybody acting on behalf of the copyright
holder?<BR><BR>The copyright holder may always in a new version remove
information about the initial authors and change the license. Does it make the
problem insolvable?<BR><BR>Thanks.<BR>
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