Tesla won’t give drivers their own crash data without a court order

Re:Tesla won’t give drivers their own crash data without a c... by kbenson on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:24AM (#17238540)

So, they can't sell that, as the GP is proposing, or they generally just don't under the current economic system? Because I'm pretty sure Dean Koontz does a variation of this, where he outlines the story but someone else actually writes the book, and it's published under his name.

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Re:Tesla won’t give drivers their own crash data without a c... by dsr_ on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @02:26PM (#17240597)

That's a work-for-hire, in which the authorship of the work (and thus the moral rights) is agreed by all participants before the work starts to be FooCorporation.

Classic work-for-hire includes ghostwritten novels and autobiographies, corporate reports, web pages, and most likely every line of code you've ever written while employed by a corporation.

There are jurisdictions where moral rights cannot be sold, and others where they can, but work-for-hire nearly always sidesteps the issue.

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Re:Tesla won’t give drivers their own crash data without a c... by JorgeGT on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @12:52PM (#17239555)

It depends on the jurisdiction. In some countries like the UK they can be indeed waived, but in others like France moral rights are inalienable -- any contract wherein you give up these rights is null and void by law.

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