At 04:41 PM 6/18/02 -0400, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: >I may be wrong, but I think "work for hire" as applied to composition >and performances is unique to the USA. It certainly doesn't exist in >that form in Canada. One actually has to specifically give up one's >rights to the employer in written form in Canada, and I beleive, most >European countries.
That's the same in the US. The contract (free-lance or employment) specifies work for hire, and with our copyright extension (the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act), work for hire has been made attractive. All my freelance writing contracts now specify work for hire (or no work). As for Canada, this from an Ottawa legal site "It is important to distinguish between owning a work, and owning the copyright in that work (or even a license to copy the work). The owner of a work does not automatically get ownership of the copyright (unless it was a work-for-hire). Furthermore, with some notable exceptions, ownership of a work does not automatically include a right to copy the work." Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
