Hong Kong Ordinances

COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE - SECT 14

Employee works

(1) Where a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, or a film, is made
by an employee in the course of his employment, his employer is the first
owner of any copyright in the work subject to-

   (a)  any agreement to the contrary; and

   (b)  subsection (2).

(2) Subject to any agreement to the contrary, where such work is exploited by
his employer or by someone else with the employer's permission in a way that
could not reasonably have been contemplated by the employer and the employee
at the time of making the work, the employer shall pay an award to the
employee in respect of such exploitation at such amount as agreed between the
employer and the employee or failing an agreement, as determined by the
Copyright Tribunal. [cf. 1988 c. 48 s. 11(2) U.K.]