Practice question
A government employee creates an ordinary agency manual as part of regularly prescribed official duties. A private firm proposes exploiting it for profit and says absence of government-work copyright necessarily dispenses with agency approval. No statutory-text or public-address exception applies. Which is best?
- No agency approval can ever be required for any government work.
- Section 176.1 can require prior agency approval for profit exploitation despite the government-work copyright exclusion.
- The firm automatically becomes the employee's employer.
- All government manuals carry private copyright in the employee's name.
- Profit exploitation automatically transfers the agency's assets to the firm.
Legal references
- RA 8293, Intellectual Property Code, Sections 171-179, 184-185 and 193-197: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1997/ra_8293_1997.html
- RA 10372, Sections 4, 8-12, 16-17, copyright amendments: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2013/ra_10372_2013.html
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