Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments & the Document Foundation

Il 03/11/2010 8.59, Andre Schnabel ha scritto:
> Ianal - but for German (and most EU countries) law, digital
> agreements are only equivalent to written ones, if there is a trusted
> electronic signature in place.
>
> So a just "click thru" would not really establish something that is
> legally binding.

How a valid contractual will is expressed, it depends on the law 
governing the agreement and this can be:

a) the law chosen by the parties in the agreement;
b) the law of the country where the defendant lives;
c) any other law expressed by the *private* international laws of the 
defendant's country;
d) any other law with which the agreement has "the stricter ties" (see 
International Convention of Rome on contractual obligations, 1980 - and 
others).

And this only for EU.

Then, you have to consider that we aren't talking about a simple online 
transaction, but copyright laws are involved too.

As long as we don't know where the "real thing" (the Foundation as legal 
entity) will be registered, we can only say that a solution *may* work.

Regards,
--
Gianluca Turconi

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