Thanks,
talked to a Russian lawyer. He is going to create the document, so that it takes into account
both Russian and US laws.
Regards,
George
- Vance R Koven <vrkoven[_at_]world.std.com> wrote:
> I would suppose that you could stipulate either body of law in the
> contract, but on the most usual rules of conflict of laws (private
> international law), in the absence of stipulation the place where services
> are rendered would govern the applicable law, in this case probably
> Russia. From a copyright standpoint, I would expect the place where the
> copyrightable material was created or first fixed would establish whose
> national copyright law applies. If the site were created on a Russian
> computer, and fixed by saving to disk, then Russia's would be the
> governing law, again unless the parties otherwise agree.
>
> Vance
>
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, George Edward wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > American individual is building Internet site in Moscow, Russia. Pays Russian programmers
> and
> > designer to work on it. Internet site will be launched in America, on American based servers,
> for
> > American consumers by American LLC. A Work Agreement is being signed by the programmers to
> the
> > individual. Individual will sign over copyrights to LLC. How should the Work Agreement
> between
> > the Russians and American individual be prepared? With Russian laws in mind, American laws in
> > mind, or both?
> >
> > I will meet with a Russian lawyer about this. Trying to get an idea of how this works.
> >
> > Regards,
> > George
> >
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