This really belongs on talk legal rather than talk-gb. The people qualified to answer such issues are more likely to be there, and it's rather specialised for this list.
Certainly when I worked for a large company which paid a great deal of attention to such issues we would not have been able to claim to be agents of the company: although certain actions (signing another company's confidentiality agreement did have the result of being an agent: we were strongly warned against doing this). Jerry On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 17:45, Edward Bainton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > Quick question arising from a 'lobbying' conversation: > > *If an employee edits the map in the course of their employment, has the > work been adequately licensed to OSM/the big wide Open?* > > According to Copyright Act 1988, > s. 11 (2) Where a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work [F1 > <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/11#commentary-c13754611>, > or a film,] is made by an employee in the course of his employment, his > employer is the first owner of any copyright in the work subject to any > agreement to the contrary. > > Can the employee be regarded, as far as OSM is concerned, as an agent of > their employer with authority to license the work? > > Thanks! > > Edward > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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