148038 - Web pages copyright mozilla.org

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

All of the web pages seem to have on the footer:

Copyright 1998-2002 The Mozilla Organization.

Now firstly, how can the mozilla organisation claim to hold the copyright of
anything, since it is a subdivision of AOLTW, and not a legal entity.  Don't you
mean Copyright 1998-2002 AOL-TW?

And secondly, how can authority be claimed over all of the site in this way?  I
don't recall having signed any copyright transfer forms for the parts of the
site I worked on.

Comment 1

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

-->Mitchell

Comment 2

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

*bugspam*

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

pre-Mozilla Foundation (2003) -> worksforme

Since all docs on mozilla.org are on, well, mozilla.org, and since there is no
existing agreement precluding the ownership of contents on mozilla.org, it can
be safely assumed that AOL/Netscape has implicitely granted mozilla.org
ownership of their docs on mozilla.org. (Note the copyright line says "the
Mozilla Organization", not "the Mozilla Foundation")