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Chapter: | 528
 | Title: | COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE | Gazette Number: | |
| Section: | 14 | Heading: | Employee works | Version Date: | 30/06/1997 |
(1) Where a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, or a film, is made by an employee in the course of his employment, his employer is the first owner of any copyright in the work subject to-
(a) any agreement to the contrary; and
(b) subsection (2).
(2) Subject to any agreement to the contrary, where such work is exploited by his employer or by someone else with the employer's permission in a way that could not reasonably have been contemplated by the employer and the employee at the time of making the work, the employer shall pay an award to the employee in respect of such exploitation at such amount as agreed between the employer and the employee or failing an agreement, as determined by the Copyright Tribunal.[cf. 1988 c. 48 s. 11(2) U.K.]