On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:44:58AM -0500, David Heller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> If the author creates the work under contract or agreed employment > "at will", the work belongs to Canon. That's the law. Fair > compensation or not, my argument is not an opinion. I am stating > fact of law. The law of USA perhaps, not of the world. No international copyright convention I know of requires such a law, and it indeed varies between countries. In some countries copyright isn't automatically transferred to the employer; in some cases it can't even be so specified generally in employment contract but must be done separately for every individual work. What's more, it isn't strictly correct to say "the work belongs to" Canon even by US law: only economic copyrights can be transferred, Berne Convention requires that author's moral rights are respected and they cannot be transferred. (Not that they matter much in cases like this.) Of course, I don't know where Canon has their manuals written or translated and what laws apply there, and presumably they've taken care of their rights well enough in any case, so all that is of no practical consequence: the end result is that it's up to Canon how they want to distribute their manuals. -- Tapani Tarvainen * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
