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Who Owns a Work Produced in Employment?

Author · Av. Ayşenur Konar, Avukat

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In short

The economic right in a work produced in employment can stay with the person who employs if the work arose during the job and for that duty, and if the contract does not say otherwise. This sentence does not make every design in a message the employer’s property. The work must have arisen during the performance of the job and for that job. The moral right is tied to the author’s person, and it does not go together with the economic transfer. A share rate is not in this text.

The general definition of copyright is a separate record. The owner of the file is not announced while the contract clause is not standing. An invoice does not take the place of an employment contract. The petition does not take the two documents for the same capacity.

A commission and an employment contract are not the same mould

A logo commissioned to an agency does not enter the same provision as software produced against a payroll. In a commission, who the economic right will stay with is read from the contract clause. While there is no clause, saying “everything is mine” because the price was paid does not carry the moral right and the right of adaptation of its own accord. The employment contract shows the relationship on the day the work arose. A designer who issues an invoice is not put, from memory, inside the provision on performance of work.

The capacity is read from the document on the day the work arose. A later change of title does not change that day’s contract of its own accord. An internship or a trial is read from the payroll or the contract line. If there is no line, the capacity is not invented. A share rate is not written into this gap either.

The moral right does not go with the economic transfer

Having the name stated on the work, and preventing changes to the work, are not an annex of the economic right. Writing “all rights” in the contract does not have the moral right treated as transferred. Transfer of the economic right sits under economic rights, and the moral right sits under moral rights. If the two records are mixed, it is read as if the author’s name had been erased.

Who the photograph stayed with sits under a photograph. If the shot was made during the job and for that duty, the debate on the economic right comes close to this record. A shot outside the duty is not announced as the property of the payroll. The general frame of copyright sits under copyright. A share rate is written in none of them.

On leaving, the file does not return of its own accord

The employee taking the raw file along on leaving does not mean the economic right has passed to the employee. If the employer’s right of use continues, keeping the file back is a separate dispute. Conversely, if the contract left the economic right with the employee, the employer cannot use the work in a new job after the leaving. Use does not widen of its own accord without a transfer document.

The delivery minute should show which file was given. If there is no minute, the file is not treated as both having gone and having stayed. The petition does not tell a copy that was not delivered as if it had been delivered. The decision is not built until the contract clause and the delivery document stand side by side.

An invoice does not build capacity

An invoice shows that the price was requested. An employment contract shows for whom, and with which duty, the work was performed. The two are not the same paper. The price having been paid does not give rise to a share rate. A rate is not written. A freelancer does not take the capacity of an employee from an invoice. The capacity is looked at in the relationship on the day the work arose.

If the job description is not in the contract, it is not assumed that the work is part of that duty. If personal work and work output stand in the same folder, the distinction is made from the date and the subject line. The application does not take the two folders for a single work. If a document is missing, the gap is not filled by a guess.

Who the file was delivered to should stand by name in the delivery minute. If there is no name, delivery is not assumed. If the contract left the economic right with the employee, the employer cannot use the work in a new job after the leaving. Use does not widen of its own accord because an invoice was issued. A share rate is not written on this delivery line either. The petition does not take the two folders for a single document.

Where a share is not read from

The question of who owns a work produced in employment is built from the work during the performance of the job and from the contract, and the economic right is read apart from the moral right. An Ankara lawyer reads from the contract that the office being in Çankaya does not choose the competent court. A share rate is not written. In the petition an invoice is not taken for an employment contract.

Conclusion

In a work produced in employment, the economic right can gather with the person who employs if nothing to the contrary is written and the work arose during the job. The moral right stays with the author. A share rate is not written. A commission contract is not a copy of this provision. The frame sits on the intellectual property page. The basis is the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works No. 5846.

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Frequently asked questions

If the salary was paid, does all the copyright pass to the employer?

The economic right, in a work that arises during the performance of the job and for that duty, can stay with the person who employs if the contract does not say otherwise. A personal work outside the duty does not enter this sentence. A share rate is not written. The moral right stands separately.

Does the employee rule apply to a person who issues an invoice?

An invoice is not an employment contract. In a commission relationship, the transfer of the economic right is read from the contract clause. While there is no clause, payment of the price does not transfer every right of its own accord. A share rate is not invented.

Is the right not to have one’s name written transferred as well?

No. Moral powers, such as the author’s name being stated and preventing changes to the work, are not an annex of the transfer of the economic right. Writing “all rights” in the contract does not erase this distinction.

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Av. Ayşenur Konar

Lawyer on the Ankara Bar Association roll, founder of Konar Hukuk. This text is general information; a specific file is reviewed separately. Author profile · Editorial policy

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