Ownership of EL rights
16 Ownership of EL rights
Subject to this section, the person who makes an eligible layout is the first owner of the EL rights in it.
Where a layout is made by a person under the terms of his or her employment by another person under a contract of service or apprenticeship, that other person shall be taken to be the maker of the layout.
The application of subsection (2) to the EL rights in a particular eligible layout may be excluded or modified by agreement.
Where, before the commencement of Part II, a design applicable to an integrated circuit, or to part of an integrated circuit, or a design applicable to a mask used to make an integrated circuit, was registered under the Designs Act 1906, the owner (within the meaning of that Act) of the design shall, for the purposes of this Act, be taken to be the maker of the circuit layout for the integrated circuit, or the part of the integrated circuit, as the case requires.
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