Arizona Rockhounding
05-Feb-95 20:47:51
Sb: #166178-Arizona Rockhounding
Fm: Al Balmer 71564,1304
To: Nathan A. Schachtman 75010,61
Nathan,
>> trickier questions of copyright law, such as who has reprint rights to
>> an article.
For software products, it's fairly straightforward. If the author is an
independent, he owns the product, even if someone is paying him to write it. If
an employee (W2 type), the employer owns all rights. From there, of course,
rights can be assigned or licensed as desired. I suspect the same conditions
hold for magazine articles. There's an attorney on CONSULT forum, Fred Wilf,
who could tell you for sure.
Al