English
Deutsch English Français Italiano
  • FAQs
  • Knowledge base
    • BASICS OF COPYRIGHT
    • Where... is the work used and which national law is applicable?
    • What... is a protected work?
    • Who... owns the copyright in the work?
    • Which... rights in the work are protected?
    • How... may other people use a work?
    • And... responsibility and sanctions?
    • Copyright and social media
  • Training
    • Training Offer
    • Case Studies
  • Advising
  • About
    • CCdigitallaw
    • Affiliation
    • Events
  • News Archive

  1. English
  2. Copyright
  3. 5b. HOW ... can other people use a work? - Contractual licenses
  4. 5b.2 Free and open source software licences
  5. 5b.2.2 WHO are licensors and licensees?
  • Basics of Copyright
  • 1. WHERE... is the work used and which national law is applicable?
  • 2. WHAT... is a protected work?
  • 3. WHO... owns the copyright in the work?
  • 4. WHICH... rights in the work are protected?
  • 5. HOW... may other people use a work?
  • 5b. HOW ... can other people use a work? - Contractual licenses
    • 5b.1 Creative Commons Licences
    • 5b.2 Free and open source software licences
      • 5b.2.1 WHICH rights are licensed?
      • 5b.2.2 WHO are licensors and licensees?
      • 5b.2.3 HOW MUCH money may be charged for FOSS?
      • 5b.2.4 HOW may FOSS be redistributed by licensees?
      • 5b.2.5 WHAT happens when a FOSS licence is infringed?
  • 6. AND... responsibility and sanctions?
  • 7. Copyright and social media

5b.2.2 WHO are licensors and licensees?

Index

Licensors can be sole authors [3.1], i.e. they alone have written the entire program, which makes them owners of the copyrights of the entire computer program. However, many programmers often work together on free and open-source software; this means they can then be considered joint authors [3.2] . Although, this can be difficult to determine in particular cases.

All rights are usually directly licensed by the owners of rights. However, there are also licences which permit sub-licences.

Depending on the software project, the people who are involved in the programming may also have to assign [3.4.1] their copyrights to the softare project. This is done via contributor agreements.

Services

FAQ FAQs, developed from real cases, allow you to quickly find answers to everyday digital law questions.
Knowledge Base A detailed knowledge base provides you insights into various legal aspects, currently with a focus on copyright issues.
Training A vast choice of on- and offline trainings are available together with interactive case studies to work through.
Advising A team of legal experts with competences ranging from copyright to data protection and licensing agreements are available for your questions.

About


CCdigitallaw is a national Competence Center in Digital Law that supports Swiss Higher Education Institutions (students, academic and administrative staff) in dealing with legal questions related to the digitization process and the use of new media and technologies. To do so, the Center offers various services such as a detailed knowledge base, FAQs, a wide range of on- and offline training activities and an advising service.

Partners


CCdigitallaw has been created through a project funded by swissuniversities. The center is the result of a collaboration between the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), University of Basel (UNIBAS), University of Neuchâtel (UNINE), University of Geneva (UNIGE), and the Conference of Swiss Libraries (CBU-KUB).

Contacts


The team of legal experts working for the Center will be more than happy to answer your questions personally, by e-mail, phone or chat.
  • e-mail: info@ccdigitallaw.ch
  • tel: +41586664930
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

 swissuniversities.png

Disclaimer
de gb fr it

Cookies

This platform uses cookies for sessions, user support, analytics and user feedback. The session and user support cookies are necessary and cannot be disabled but you can opt out of the analytics and user feedback.
Analytics
User feedback