Tom, a classmate of yours at U. of T., was employed as a programmer by Mohawk Oil Company about three months after graduation. Because you could understand the program he was working on and because you write well, he called to ask if you wanted to take on the task of writing the manual to accompany the program. Read each of the following separately and indicate which is false.
a. The issue of who owns copyright in the manual does not depend solely on who writes it; if you write it all by yourself, you still may not own it.
b. If two persons wrote the manual together, it is possible to have joint ownership of the copyright.
c. If the company hires you as an employee to write the manual, the company would own copyright unless your employment contract provided otherwise.
d. If you contract as an independent contractor (independent consultant) with the company to write the manual, who owns the copyright can be specified in the contract.
e. The owner of the copyright will be whoever first gets his claim of ownership in the copyright office.