[RQ-Rules] Re: New RQ

[Nick.Middleton at invensys.com]

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>> And I didn't get a penny because it was a work for hire for Chaosium.
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>Thankfully we don't have anything like "work for hire" in European
>Copyright law...

I realise this is largely off topic Peter, but that surprises me, since
"work for hire" is basically a contract of employment that includes a
clause to the effect that original forms of expression created whilst in
that employ belong to the employer, not the employee - hence Newspaper copy
would (under these terms) belong to the newspaper, not the individual
journalist.

Indeed, my impression form various conversations over the years about Games
Workshop (*spit*) was that they had used exactly those sorts of terms (and
I thought still did), hence  a lot of GW RPG material being inaccessible
for reprinting these days without GW's cooperation. But I am anything BUT
an expert...

Cheers,

Nick Middleton