Author: Jeroen Noomen
Date: 01:22:25 05/04/02
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On May 03, 2002 at 20:10:23, Slater Wold wrote: As I told you I am not an employee of the Rebel company. So the rule given below doesnot apply to me. So it would be interesting to state what happens in the following case: Somebody (I am not talking about myself, but in general) likes to make openingbooks and gives this to the programmer of a well known chess program. What does the copyright law says about this? Who is the owner of the book, who owns the copyright? Jeroen >Although the general rule is that the person who creates the work is its author, >there is an exception to that principle; the exception is a work made for hire, >which is a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her >employment; or a work specially ordered or commissioned in certain specified >circumstances. When a work qualifies as a work made for hire, the employer or >commissioning party is considered to be the author.
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