Practice question
A patron pays a freelance painter to create a portrait and receives the original canvas. No written copyright-transfer stipulation exists. The patron claims delivery automatically grants the right to reproduce thousands of prints. Which is correct?
- The canvas always carries every copyright right
- Payment automatically makes the patron the author
- The creator retains copyright under the commissioned-work default; ownership of the material object does not itself transfer reproduction rights
- The public owns the portrait immediately
- A frame receipt is an automatic copyright assignment
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1997/ra_8293_1997.html — RA 8293, section 178
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2013/ra_10372_2013.html — RA 10372, section 9 amending section 181
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