Copy Right Issues

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Overview

If your employees are creating your website in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, copyright automatically vests in you as the employer.

This is not the case if you are commissioning contractors (e.g. external web developers) to create your website. This is a common misunderstanding. In the absence of agreement, the contractor will own the copyright in whatever he creates.

Accordingly, you should agree in advance that the copyright in anything created by the contractor for you will be owned by you, so that you are able to do what you want with it. You might have paid someone to produce pictures for a brochure – if you are granted a licence to use the pictures in the brochure, this does not necessarily mean that you can use the pictures on your website.

Creative Rights

Australian Copyright Agency