which rather should be called "Authorship right" because the German name is: "Urheberrecht". It is forbidden by law to give away this property.
What you may give away is the Copy-right in the real meaning of the words.
This is completely different from the US laws on Copyright. For the same reason it is no possible to have public domain software in Europe....
Jörg
EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 schilling@fokus.gmd.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix