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Practice question: Ownership of Copyright

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Practice question

Two co-authors produce a joint work containing separately usable parts whose respective authors can be identified. What is section 178.2’s rule for those parts?
  1. Only the publisher owns every part
  2. The oldest co-author owns all parts
  3. All parts become ownerless
  4. Every reader acquires the parts
  5. Each identified author is original copyright owner of the part created

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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