Did the company go bankrupt? Were there creditors? Did a court assign
all remaining assets to somebody? I suspect that this isn't so much a
copyright question as a corporate law question.
IANAL, free legal advice is overpriced etc...
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From: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property
[mailto:CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org] On Behalf Of Millward, Debbie
(VAN_Exchange)
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:50 PM
To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property
Subject: [CNI-(C)] rights for defunct newspaper?
(Canadian question, but answers from US copyright perspective might
apply):
My understanding is that a newspaper as an organization owns the
copyright
of the photos taken by staff photographers in the course of employment
at
the newspaper. Presuming that's correct, what happens to ownership of
those
photos when the newspaper ceases to exist, and isn't bought or absorbed
by
another company?
A photo agency has an old photo in its files that they want permission
to
use, but the orginating newspaper folded in the 1980s. So who owns the
rights to the photo(s) now?
Thanks in advance for any opinions, from non-lawyers as they may be.
Debbie Millward, MLS
News Research Library Manager
Vancouver Sun | The Province
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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