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		jashmatthews 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass ... The USA hasn’t managed to completely impose their idea of intellectual property on everyone yet. Some countries you can’t sign away authorship even if you can commercial rights.

hiatus 3 days ago [–]

Parent objected to:

> You'd need a custom license where everyone in the world could use the results except for the contributor

> That one is incompatible with copyright laws in many countries outside USA.

Does authorship confer usage rights?

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