On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:22:41PM +0300, Jeremy Nicholl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Friday, November 28, 2003, at 06:52 pm, Henry Posner wrote: > > >At 12:35 PM 11/28/2003 +0100, EOS-Digest 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. > > > >I am under the impression that the Berne Convention, the Buenos Aires > >Convention of 1910, and numerous bilateral proclamations and treaties > >cover international aspects.
> Correct. None of those treaties require that in case of works done for hire the copyrights are automatically or by default transferred to employer. That particular part of US copyright law is not derived from any international treaty I know of - and I know that is *not* the case in some countries that are parties to Berne convention. If you think otherwise, please point to chapter and verse or at least which specific treaty of convention covers it. -- Tapani Tarvainen * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
