Employer owns copyright relating to software
The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) found in favour of a defendant company, X, in copyright infringement proceedings, granting a declaration that X was the owner of copyright in various literary works relating to software created by the claimant, Y, who was X’s employee. The works in issue were various versions of the software, a user interface and a user guide. The Court found that the evidence showed that making the software was the central task for which X wa