Re: Shoplifting, concealment, liability presumption

[David Kastrup]

RJack <user@example.net> writes:

> Hyman Rosen wrote:
>> On 3/10/2010 3:03 PM, RJack wrote:
>>> The Copyright Act's "pass-through permissions" provision eh?
>>
>> No, the license's pass-through permission.
>
>
>> The Copyright Act gives rights holders the exclusive right to
>> authorize others to copy and distribute covered works.
>
> Yep you're right.
>
> The Act just doesn't authorize *non-rights* holders to authorize others
> to copy and distribute covered works.

But the rights holders may authorize others.

> Yeah... except there's no right to authorize others to authorize.

Huh?  Every transferable right can be passed to others.  That includes
copyright, but not authorship.

-- 
David Kastrup