copyright law
Article 16 A work created by a citizen in order to accomplish the tasks of a legal person or other organization is a job work. Except in the circumstances specified in the second paragraph of this article, the copyright belongs to the author, but the legal person or other organization has the right to give priority to the use within its business scope. Within two years after the completion of the work, the author shall not permit a third person to use the work in the same way as the work used by the unit without the consent of the unit.
In any of the following circumstances, the author shall enjoy the right of authorship, and other rights of copyright shall be enjoyed by legal persons or other organizations, which may reward the author:
(1) Engineering design drawings, product design drawings, maps, computer software, etc., which are mainly created by using the material and technical conditions of legal persons or other organizations and are in charge of by legal persons or other organizations;
(2) to hold a position in which a legal person or other organization enjoys copyright as stipulated by laws, administrative regulations or agreed in the contract.
Seventeenth commissioned works's copyright ownership, agreed by the client and the trustee through the contract. If the contract is not clearly stipulated or concluded, the copyright belongs to the trustee.
More detailed information can provide more accurate legal advice.
The company uses free posters on the Internet. Is this infringement? On the Internet, there are many excellent free websites that can provide information about our channels, especially many learning websites that allow us to learn a lot of other knowledge. For example, if we study chemistry, we can learn some knowledge about biology and physics on the Internet.
Or learn some very basic editors, which can make our work very convenient and form our own advantages. So, do some companies infringe on what is free on the Internet, especially free posters and pictures? Many companies will have such concerns after using it. In fact, there is no infringement when we use free posters online. After all, he posted his own posters online for free, and we also made relevant decisions when using them for free, resulting in no infringement when using these posters. Because we use posters in our company in daily life, as long as they are used normally, they are not made of posters.
If some other behaviors are just normal use and there is no infringement, our national laws stipulate that these pictures can be used free of charge within a certain range. It's just that if we use some free pictures or seals online, in a very secret area of our company, or want to use them completely when we don't have time to change them, if we use this free poster for such behavior, if our company wants to expand, there may be some risks.
Therefore, if the company simply uses the free poster, it is not infringement, but if it wants to use this poster more deeply and do some other things, there may be certain risks. _ Simply put, if you only use posters for some publicity, it is not infringement. If it is for better expansion, our company wants to do some other things, such as some important planning, which may have some risks.
Can I apply for a patent for the poster? Posters cannot be classified as "patents". However, the content of the poster can obtain another kind of intellectual property right-"copyright".