Fantastic article! Which makes me feel bad that I’m going to be a tad nit-picky here, but I can’t help it.
Company ownership and work-for-hire doesn’t exist in every country.
Canada, for instance, lets you sign copyright away, but you’re always
the work’s owner and retain moral rights. O, Canada
Errr, not quite. Canada recognizes corporate ownership, just not corporate authorship. In Canada, an employee of a company who produces a work “in the course of employment” is still considered the author of the work, but the company will own the copyright in the work. So Omni’s situation wouldn’t really be any different under Canadian law than it would be under US law, except that the various copyrights would expire at different times.
