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Copyright Questions (working after contract ends)
Hello,
I was hired as a contractor to do some PR in a foreign country and my contract stated that anything produced within my scope of work would be the property of the company. The contract ended on a certain date yet I continued to work for several months without a contract. My question: Do I hold the copyright to work-related photos taken after the contract ended as there was no written agreement giving the photo rights to the company? Thanks so much. |
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Copyright Questions (working after contract ends)
I was hired as a contractor to do some PR in a foreign country and my
contract stated that anything produced within my scope of work would be the property of the company. The contract ended on a certain date yet I continued to work for several months without a contract. My question: Do I hold the copyright to work-related photos taken after the contract ended as there was no written agreement giving the photo rights to the company? In Scottish law there is a concept of "standard form" for contracts which is intended to fill in the blanks where they are incomplete or non-existent - common sense is the default. In this case since you were enjoying the benefits of the previous contract by getting paid, I'd guess that a court would say that whatever the previous contract said about intellectual property rights would also continue in force. Scotland is a civil-law country (like France, and unlike England and the US outside Louisiana) so something similar may operate in others. In England and the US I'd guess it's a lawsuit free-for-all where the side that could pay for the most lawyers would always win. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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