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Re:'Terminating Internet Access over Piracy Claims Is Drasti... by aleph_minus_one on Sunday October 15, 2023 @04:32PM (#37893157)
> 1) Copyrights can only be owned by natural persons and can not be transferred. They can be licensed, but the physical creator of a work always owns the copyright. Disney can't own copyright, only it's artists and animators. They have to negotiate a license to distribute with everyone.

This is, as I understand your idea, the situation that actually exists in Germany in the Urheberrecht. Here, two concepts exists:

- Urheberschaft (authorship): the property of being the author and be attributed as such; cannot be sold.

- Nutzungsrechte (usage rights): these can be sold

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