Copyright ownership and software development
New Zealand’s copyright laws contain an important feature known as the “commissioning rule”. Software developers – whose stock in trade is intellectual property – need to beware of this rule.
Note: the Government is proposing to repeal this rule. As of April 2009, the amending Bill (carried over from the previous Labour-led Government) sits at number 18 on the Government’s Order Paper (right after the Dog Control Amendment Bill), so the rule may not be repealed for some time.
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