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    <p id="category"><a href="/activities/ftf/ftf.html">Legal</a></p>
 <h1>Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA)</h1>
 
+<h3>Abstract</h3>
+
+<p>A Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) is an agreement between the owner of
+a copyright and a fiduciary. The FLA a transfers some of the right of use
+from the copyright owner to the fiduciary. Other than a collecting society the
+FLA is about <i>grouping</i> the interests of the copyright owners at the
+fiduciary (and not the distribution of the product).</p>
+
+<p>The usage of a software is governed by a license agreement.
+Free-software-projects usually have more than one copyright owner who work
+collaboratively on that project. In case there happens a violation of the 
+license agreement this distributed copyright might cause problems because in 
+case of a lawsuit all the copyright owners may need to be present.</p>
+
+<p>The FLA bundles all the rights of the copyright owners at the fiduciary. He 
+can then effectively push the interests of the copyright holders in court.</p>
+
+
 <h3>What is the FLA?</h3>
 
 <p>The Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) is a copyright assignment that allows