Re: advice sought

If these slide images constitute illustrative matter that can be considered works in and of themselves, then they have copyright on their own right, so to speak and are not linked to the text. That being the case, I would suggest that your copyright in the illustrations precedes any contractual obligation with the agency. Your use of them in the report would be considered a one time use only - not arising "as a result of this consultancy".

Bernard Katz, U of Guelph Library

On Mon, 31 Jan 1994 matthewsj[_at_]vax.library.utoronto.ca wrote:
>
> If a contracted researcher (American) provides a report to a federal gov't
> agency (Canadian) that includes slides from the researcher's personal
> collection (ie. images not taken specifically for the contract), does the
> agency have the right to retain and reproduce them? The contract specifies
> that "any reports produced and any information obtained as a result of
> this consultancy are the property of the [agency]".
>
> It happens that the agency rejected the report. A third party then
> produced a report using the images supplied by the researcher - without
> acknowledgement or compensation.
>
> Any advice for the researcher?
>
> Julia Matthews
> <matthewsj[_at_]vax.library.utoronto.ca>
Received on Wed Feb 02 1994 - 01:37:20 GMT