Copyright

[35Flipper]

If you are asked to write a booklet and have a company publish and print it, then they reprint it again the next year, but remove all trace of you writing it and then subtly reworded some of the sentence's to try and look like they have written it themselves, do you still own the copyright? (Does this make sense?)

[Ethel]

If you have been commissioned to write the work, or written it in the course of your employment, then you do not always hold the copyright.

Have you got the contract?

[35Flipper]

I was commissioned on a freelance basis to write the booklet for an agreed fee, there was no contract. There was an understanding that I would be contacted in the future to help update the book. (They told me this verbally).

When I recently questioned why they had re-printed with-out my name I was told the content of the booklet and therefore the copyright was theirs as they had published the material. This just doesn't ring true to me.

This piece actually went out to approx 50,000 customers.

[35Flipper]

Anyone?