Who is the owner of the patrimonial copyrights for computer programs?
There are two hypotheses: a) Persons free of any contract create the program independently; b) The program is created while performing work tasks or following the instructions of the employer. In the first hypotese the patrimonial copyright belong to the author. In the second case, the patrimonial copyrights belong to the employer, if there isn’t a contrary clause in the contract. Therefore, pay attention! In case in the contract there are no clauses regarding the beneficiary of the patrimonial copyrights over computer programs, it is supposed that they belong to the employer. In order for them to belong to other persons, specific clauses must be put in the contract. Dan Livescu 2.What exactly is protected in case of a computer program? According to Article 72-(1) of the Law 8/1996 the copyright protection of computer programs “includes any expression of a program, applications and operating systems, expressed in any kind of language, either in source-code or in object-code, the prepar
