Managing Intellectual Property

New Zealand allows photographers to keep rights

29 September 2008

Peter Ollier, Hong Kong

New Zealand’s government has introduced an amendment to its Copyright Act that would repeal a rule giving the commissioners of certain works the copyright, rather than the creators themselves

On September 19, associate commerce minister Judith Tizard introduced the Copyright (Commissioning Rule) Amendment Bill. The commissioning rule states that a person who commissions a sound recording, film, computer program or specified artistic works is the first owner of the work. “Repealing the rule...



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