...Where you had to pay a royalty fee to the person who designed your car every time you drove it or your house every time you went inside it or your toilet every time you took a sh*t. Entertainment has a unique business model in that the content creators make money pretty much forever after the content is actually created. I say "has" but that's quickly changing to "had" because more and more of our daily lives are filled with things that we don't actually own but rather rent and you have to pay rent on
Most products are "works for hire". The IP belongs to the entity that commissioned the design.
Not in the US, which is probably the main place you see the works made for hire doctrine. The Copyright Act is fairly clear. Typically a work made for hire is made by an employee in the course of their employment. Merely commissioning something doesn't count. Federal employment law is looked at if there's a question as to whether an employer/employee relationship existed. You'd think just hiring people and putting them on the payroll would be a common practice in the big copyright industries, especiall
Not in the US, which is probably the main place you see the works made for hire doctrine. The Copyright Act is fairly clear. Typically a work made for hire is made by an employee in the course of their employment.
No. The studio system is dead for all intents and purposes. Production companies might have some studio musicians on staff to perform ad jingles. But the horrible abuses of performers, writers, directors, etc as employees of a studio died a well deserved death decades ago.
Sorry, I'm not talking about works where the point is to exploit the copyright, I'm talking about most works made for hire. An office memo sent by email is a work made for hire under our stupid copyright system that automatically grants copyrights upon creation. Things like that far outnumber movies and songs. Though as noted elsewhere, I'm surprised that no one has been trying to revive the studio system on a limited basis so as to avoid terminations.
Imagine a world... (Score:2)
...Where you had to pay a royalty fee to the person who designed your car every time you drove it or your house every time you went inside it or your toilet every time you took a sh*t. Entertainment has a unique business model in that the content creators make money pretty much forever after the content is actually created. I say "has" but that's quickly changing to "had" because more and more of our daily lives are filled with things that we don't actually own but rather rent and you have to pay rent on
Re: Imagine a world... (Score:2)
Most products are "works for hire". The IP belongs to the entity that commissioned the design.
This is what record labels are doing: Buying songwriter's rights wholesale and then shopping around for performers.
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Most products are "works for hire". The IP belongs to the entity that commissioned the design.
Not in the US, which is probably the main place you see the works made for hire doctrine. The Copyright Act is fairly clear. Typically a work made for hire is made by an employee in the course of their employment. Merely commissioning something doesn't count. Federal employment law is looked at if there's a question as to whether an employer/employee relationship existed. You'd think just hiring people and putting them on the payroll would be a common practice in the big copyright industries, especiall
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Not in the US, which is probably the main place you see the works made for hire doctrine. The Copyright Act is fairly clear. Typically a work made for hire is made by an employee in the course of their employment.
No. The studio system is dead for all intents and purposes. Production companies might have some studio musicians on staff to perform ad jingles. But the horrible abuses of performers, writers, directors, etc as employees of a studio died a well deserved death decades ago.
Re: Imagine a world... (Score:2)
Sorry, I'm not talking about works where the point is to exploit the copyright, I'm talking about most works made for hire. An office memo sent by email is a work made for hire under our stupid copyright system that automatically grants copyrights upon creation. Things like that far outnumber movies and songs. Though as noted elsewhere, I'm surprised that no one has been trying to revive the studio system on a limited basis so as to avoid terminations.