[email protected] [2012-03-16 10:54]: > On Friday 16 March 2012 03:08:44 Pranesh Prakash wrote: >> 1. Copyright for anything written in the course of employment (i.e., as >> part of employment) vests with the employer, unless there is a contract >> to the contrary. > > Not exactly. If it is a newspaper, periodical or similar publishing house, in > matters relating to reproduction for publication, the newspaper, periodical, > publishing house holds copyright. In all other matters copyrights rests with > the author.
Not so. Section 17 of the Copyright Act deals with this, and it applies
to all employment. (Note: consultancy is not employment, and is treated
differently, and this applies whether it is code or op-eds. This is the
work of hire vs. work for hire distinction.)
> Thus, (imo) incase of plagiarism or use for some other creative / non print
> publication or expression, it would be the author who has to object or
> provide permissions.
Moral rights ("author's special rights" in section 57 of the Copyright
Act) always vest with the author.
> What about govt / university funded research, which Vickram has raised.
If it is produced as part of the person's employment at the university,
by default the copyright in it vests in the university.
~ Pranesh
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