02-Jan-2012, 1:59 PM
Quote:However, copyright can be reassigned if the person expressly agrees.
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If the creator ... signs an exclusive contract, only the record company can use it. And that's exactly what happened at Chip's Portal because of the word "exclusive" I put in the conditions.
Except that nobody "signed" anything...
"Under the U.S. Copyright Act, a transfer of ownership in copyright must be memorialized in a writing signed by the transferor. For that purpose, ownership in copyright includes exclusive licenses of rights. Thus exclusive licenses, to be effective, must be granted in a written instrument signed by the grantor."