Jurisdiction dependant, but here are two general concepts which I think are
relevant:
As the statute you quoted specifies, when copyright will belong to the
employer, it tends to depend on if the copyrightable work was made within
the scope of the employee's job. (If you're a software programmer,
The question is rather complicated and if at all can really only be approached
on a per jurisdiction base as both employment regulation and certain aspects
of intellectual property law differ widely by territory.
So the 1st thing to clarify would be where this is taking place and which law
is
Hi all
Quick question arising from a 'lobbying' conversation:
*If an employee edits the map in the course of their employment, has the
work been adequately licensed to OSM/the big wide Open?*
According to UK Copyright Act 1988,
s. 11 (2) Where a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work [F1
