Re: Lawyer's advice on boilerplate in RFCs and I-Ds

[Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>]

John C Klensin <john-ietf at jck.com> writes:

>>   * What does copyright on a "result of collective work"
>> means?  As     far as I understood, all contributors retain
>> their individual     bits, and the collective work is a
>> combined work of their     individual bits.  (I have a vague
>> memory that a "combined work" is     copyrightable in the US,
>> but not so elsewhere.  Further, not all     RFCs is the
>> product of "combined work", which should be clarified     as
>> well.)
>
> Since the RFC editing process includes the addition of text and
> removal of other text and thereby changes the work from the last
> pre-RFC I-D, I would imagine that every RFC would be a combined work
> except, possibly, those created from beginning to end by the RFC
> Editor team.

Ah, the editing done by the RFC editor may likely be owned by the
Trust, yes.  (I wonder if that is in the RFC Editor contract.)
Although describing that as "result of collective work" seems
confusing to me, and I wonder whether not something else was meant
instead.  Such as the "collective work" by having many different
authors contribute minor corrections.

/Simon

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