Okay, so my post couldn't be used verbatim in a law. Go with the spirit of it and give them equal voting rights to decide licensing etc., and an equal share of the profits.
As far as selling things, they can sell the right to use it, but they shouldn't be allowed to sell the right to deny its use to others. It's even sketchy to allow the originating person to keep others away from using it, but it would take a lot bigger change to fix that. We could avoid most trouble by not allowing exclusive licenses, or at least restricting them like monopolies.
p.s. all you ACs out there do like I just did and sign up for a name. Rob and company are honest--they won't sell your e-mail or otherwise exploit you.
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Okay, so my post couldn't be used verbatim in a law. Go with the spirit of it and give them equal voting rights to decide licensing etc., and an equal share of the profits.
As far as selling things, they can sell the right to use it, but they shouldn't be allowed to sell the right to deny its use to others. It's even sketchy to allow the originating person to keep others away from using it, but it would take a lot bigger change to fix that. We could avoid most trouble by not allowing exclusive licenses, or at least restricting them like monopolies.
p.s. all you ACs out there do like I just did and sign up for a name. Rob and company are honest--they won't sell your e-mail or otherwise exploit you.