[politics] Re: [d@DCC] Senate Bill S-9

[Jon-o Addleman]

Wallace J.McLean wrote:
  > Can Sony force you to come up with a song?

No more than I could force a photographer to take my picture.

>>What about a 
>>journalist writing an article for a newspaper?
> 
> 
> Already covered by a special section of the Act: 13(3), after the 
> word "but":
> 
>   http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/38965.html#rid-39063
> 
> 
>>What about me writing up 
>>some documentation during some software testing at work? Who 
>>should get the copyright in these cases?
> 
> 
>   Already covered by a special section of the Act: 13(3), above the 
> word "but":

Would this apply also to a photographer, commissioned to take a picture? 
Is the photographer an 'employee'? This is probably defined legally, 
somewhere, I'm curious about the answer.

I've done some short-term contract work for people before, writing web 
scripts and the like, would I count as an employee then? It would be 
interesting to know if I owned the copyright for those programs I had 
written. If not, I guess I couldn't use the same script for another 
similar customer with similar needs, could I?
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