If no contract, what are copyright laws??

punktured · #1 (**permalink**) 10-01-2007, 07:45 PM

If i have worked for a band for a few years, and never signed any agreement when first hired, any sort of intellectual property or copyright agreement...does my employer own my art work, or do i still retain creative copyright?

JustinHelton · #2 (**permalink**) 10-01-2007, 08:45 PM

if there was no contract or agreement that said they owned it I would think its still yours....I could be wrong though

Hrabovsky · #3 (**permalink**) 10-01-2007, 09:33 PM

If you were doing it as a part of your employment—it belongs to the boss.

If it was freelance—it's yours.

rwarnick · #4 (**permalink**) 10-01-2007, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Hrabovsky

If you were doing it as a part of your employment—it belongs to the boss.

If it was freelance—it's yours.

yes, if its freelance and theres no contract saying they owned it, i'm pretty sure it yours.

punktured · #5 (**permalink**) 10-01-2007, 10:14 PM

let's say you wanted to make a vinly "toy" from an image off a poster you did...would that be a copyright infringement? Plagarising your own work?

George W Bush · #6 (**permalink**) 10-01-2007, 11:19 PM

creator of an image retains inherent copyright unless it is specifically granted via a contract.

dontfalldown · #7 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 12:16 AM

depends if it was a "work for hire"........

Works Made for Hire. -- (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. 17 U.S.C. sec 101