D logo copyright

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 11:12:57 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
> I've been researching what is necessary to transfer the 
> copyright of the D logo to Digital Mars, which is complicated 
> by international issues.
>
> It seems that the term "copyright" is often aliased to the 
> German "Deutsches Urheberrecht" which is what we call the 
> "moral rights of the author" in the UK.
>
> This is something very different from copyright as it is 
> inalienable from the originating creator and not something that 
> can be transferred other that by inheritance.
>
> This makes me wonder if previous attempts to negotiate a new 
> copyright for the logo have gone unanswered because the 
> terminology used has lost something in translation.
>
> Do any of our native German D users know what the right 
> terminology for the international concept of "copyright" is?
>
> European copyright law is something that is currently being 
> debated for unification and there is no actual legislation in 
> place so any negotiations regarding the logo have to be 
> conducted based on the common ground between German and U.S. 
> laws.
>
> A...

Does it make a difference a. where the author lives and b. where 
the logo is hosted?