On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Fedor Zuev wrote: > The problem is that many US copyrighed works do not have [legally > recognized] authors at all.
They all have authors, and they all are legally recognized. If you're not a legal entity, you can't be an author or a copyright holder by definition. > Author != copyright holder and firms and corporations cannot have > moral rights according the most of European copyright laws. What you're attempting to get at is the difference in copyright laws and the application of moral rights to "works for hire." I personally am not certain how "works for hire" interact with moral rights, but I would suspect that they are slightly different for every country that has a concept of a work for hire and moral rights. Regardless, in the US (and I would suspect most other jurisdictions) the concept of a work for hire is well formed in legislation, and generally well explored through multiple litigations. Don Armstrong -- Build a fire for a man, an he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -- Jules Bean http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu