[plug] Intellectual Property

[Jeremy Malcolm]

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> Can you state an example of a circumstance where copyright is
> implied or automatically is vested in the entity comissioning the
> work and not the author - I would really be interested in this
> scenario ?

The nub of this issue is that an assignment or licence of copyright
doesn't have to be done expressly, it can be implied from the
circumstances of the case.  And even if the copyright isn't assigned
to the commissioning party, the terms of the implied licence to the
commissioning party of the right to use the software can restrict the
rights of the programmer to do so.  Am away from the office so don't
have case references to hand but see

http://www.austlii.edu.au/do2/disp.pl/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/unrep546
0.html
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/cth/federal%5fct/19
97/352.html

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