Jason Worked as an Employee of MegaByte Industries,a Computer Conglomerate

question 26

Multiple Choice

Jason worked as an employee of MegaByte Industries,a computer conglomerate.As part of his job,he produced a unique program for routing emergency calls to the appropriate public emergency services departments.There is no written employee contract dealing with ownership of the program.If the program were copyrighted,under a written employer/employee contract,by MegaByte,

• A)Jason would have the right to have his name associated with it unless the contract said otherwise.
• B)Jason would have the right to have his name associated with it no matter what the contract said.
• C)the length of copyright protection for the program would be 50 years.
• D)only Jason could licence the program to the public emergency services who wished to use it.
• E)neither MegaByte nor Jason would have any rights unless the copyright were registered.

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