bits of background.
In some countries, such as Germany, it is not possible to reassign copyright.
Other rights can be assigned; and I believe that it should be possible to assign
rights to an organisation to enforce licensing and collect on court awarded
compensation.
I did read:
"A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects"
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html
which may also interest some of those who have been fascinated by this thread.