Jeffrey Fisher on 3 Aug 2000 14:32:02 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> intellectual property, Hollywood style |
this work made for hire thing is something freelance writers are fighting more and more and in more and more venues. virtually all contracts signed through third-party employment firms are work-made-for-hire, for instance. even as a full-timer at a hip internet consulting company, basically everything i think is owned by my employer. makes me wary of being too terribly creative on the side, if you see what i mean. my life is work made for hire. huh. i wonder if i should be saying this in public with my name attached. oh, well. > From: manovich@ucsd.edu (Lev Manovich) > Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:43:39 -0700 > To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net > Subject: <nettime> intellectual property, Hollywood style > > Do you think that after the Net, memes, open source and other similar > phenomenons/concepts/movements, the issues of copyright and intelectual > property belong to the twentieth century? > > Not quite yet. > > The following comes from the contract recently offered to me by a Holywod > company: > > "OWNERSHIP. > > Writer hereby agrees that the Works are considered a "work made for hire." > As between Writer and Producer, the Works (including any ideas, written > materials, and copyrights thereto) and all rights therein shall be the > sole property of Producer, and Producer may publish, broadcast, exhibit, > transmit, use and/or exploit the Works in whole or in part, in perpetuity, > for any purpose, in any manner and through any media, whether now known or > hereafter devised, throughout the world, in all languages, as Producer in > its sole discretion shall determine. Writer hereby acknowledges that none > of the Works constitute a work of fine art, and hereby waives all moral > rights, if any, associated with the Work. Writer hereby irrevocably > assigns and transfers to Producer all right, title and interest of every > kind and character throughout the world and in perpetuity, in any and all > languages, which Writer now has or may be deemed to have in the Works, > including but not limited to any ideas, material, original works of > authorship, and copyrights thereto, whether oral or in writing. Writer > hereby agrees to take, at all times hereafter, all action and sign and > deliver all documents as Producer may reasonably request in order to vest > or perfect in Producer all of such right, title and interest in the Works > and to permit Producer to protect such intellectual property. Writer > hereby irrevocably designates and appoints Producer as Writer's agent and > attorney-in-fact to take such action and sign such documents on behalf of > Writer in order to vest and perfect such right, title and interest in the > Works and to permit Producer to protect such intellectual property. The > assignment in this Section 6 shall not apply to any invention or right > which Writer is entitled to pursuant to the terms of California Labor Code > Section 2870 or any successor provision." > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Lev Manovich > Associate Professor > http://visarts.ucsd.edu/~manovich > email: manovich@ucsd.edu > phone: +1-858-822-1012 / fax: +1-858-534-7976 > > address: > University of California -- San Diego > Visual Arts Department, 0084, > 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0084, U.S.A. > > > > > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold