Thanks, I'll repost. On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 18:04, SK53 <sk53....@gmail.com> wrote:
> This really belongs on talk legal rather than talk-gb. The people > qualified to answer such issues are more likely to be there, and it's > rather specialised for this list. > > Certainly when I worked for a large company which paid a great deal of > attention to such issues we would not have been able to claim to be agents > of the company: although certain actions (signing another company's > confidentiality agreement did have the result of being an agent: we were > strongly warned against doing this). > > Jerry > > > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 17:45, Edward Bainton <bainton....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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 Copyright Act 1988, >> s. 11 (2) Where a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work [F1 >> <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/11#commentary-c13754611>, >> or a film,] is made by an employee in the course of his employment, his >> employer is the first owner of any copyright in the work subject to any >> agreement to the contrary. >> >> Can the employee be regarded, as far as OSM is concerned, as an agent of >> their employer with authority to license the work? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Edward >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >
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