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

[Russell McOrmond]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Jon-o Addleman wrote:

> 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?

  Like any professional photographer, I ensure that issues like copyright
are very clear in any contract before I do a commissioned work.  It
doesn't matter who gets first copyright or even if the copyright act was
against me as the creator:  I would get copyright in the work that I did,
I would get paid adequately more for someone else receiving copyright, or
I wouldn't bother doing the work.

  In Mr. Geist's article in the Toronto Star he suggests that privacy
legislation may not yet be strong enough to adequately protect the
subjects of photographs.  I believe this is an issue we should be deeply
concerned about, possibly suggesting to the photographers groups that
bills on this issue be postponed until adequate *PRIVACY* legislation is
in place.

-- 
 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> 
 Code is Law: how software code regulates the activities of citizens,
 and acts similar to law.  How do we ensure transparency/accountability?  
 http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/life-of-hacker.html#code=law
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