On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:29:28PM -0500, Henry Posner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 05:03 AM 11/29/2003 +0100, EOS-Digest wrote: > >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.
> They may not, but once the ownership has been transferred they > protect that ownership. Strictly speaking that is not correct, the notion that copyright is equivalent to ownership is not explicitly acknowledged, and there is strong disagreement about whether or not that should be done. For practical purposes, however, you are of course right, Berne et al do allow transfer of copyright (or actually just economic rights, so-called moral rights cannot be transferred) and then protect those rights as belonging to the recipient. So, to bring this at least slightly closer to topic, camera manuals generally are copyrighted and must not be freely copied without copyright holder's permission, and if the manufacturer of the camera in question is not the copyright holder, they should know who is, so ask them first. -- Tapani Tarvainen * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
