On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:16:43 -0800, Erik Max Francis wrote: > David T wrote: > >> Individuals, and perhaps groups of individuals are the creators of >> works. > > When someone pays you to create a work, then they own the copyright, not > you. It's called work for hire.
That is *not* generally true, although it is true in certain industries, such as newspapers. Book publishers, for instance, do not generally own the copyright even if they ask you to write a book. Until the 1978 Copyright Act, neither did record labels: the creative musician owned the copyright. See http://www.cdbaby.net/articles/courtney_love.html for details of how the major record labels, through their enforcement arm the RIAA, stole rights from the creative artists that they claim to represent. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
