<html><head></head><body>The question is rather complicated and if at all can really only be approached on a per jurisdiction base as both employment regulation and certain aspects of intellectual property law differ widely by territory.<br><br>So the 1st thing to clarify would be where this is taking place and which law is relevant.<br><br>Simon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Am 18. Oktober 2019 19:41:59 MESZ schrieb Edward Bainton <bainton.ete@gmail.com>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Hi all<div><br></div><div>Quick question arising from a 'lobbying' conversation: </div><div><br></div><div><b>If an employee edits the map in the course of their employment, has the work been adequately licensed to OSM/the big wide Open?</b></div><div><br></div><div>According to UK Copyright Act 1988, </div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-align:justify">s. 11 (2) Where a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bolder;font-size:1.4em;text-align:justify">[</span><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/11#commentary-c13754611" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="gmail-m_2702516656846790668gmail-reference-c13754611" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(39,144,196);line-height:1.4em;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;padding:0px 0.1em;text-align:justify">F1</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px;text-align:justify">, or a film,</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bolder;font-size:1.4em;text-align:justify">]</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-align:justify"> is made by an employee in the course of his employment, his employer is the first owner of any copyright in the work subject to any agreement to the contrary.</span><br></div><div> <br></div><div>Can the employee be regarded, as far as OSM is concerned, as having authority to license the work? Or rather, which is what I take to be the more important question, if the employer became unhappy with OSM using their employee's edits, would her remedy be against OSM, or against her employee? </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div></div>
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