Judgment No. 471

• Organization: World Health Organization (WHO)
• Date: 28.01.1982
• Original: French
• Judges: Grisel, Ducoux, Devlin
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

THE COMPLAINT IS DISMISSED.

Consideration 3

Extract:

According to the applicable provision, "when the organization employs staff to produce works of scholarship, it holds all author's rights, including copyright and reproduction rights. [...] The text was written for the [organization] and at its request. The complainant received no special remuneration for the other manuals which he wrote, and which have been published. From that it is clear that he did not hold copyright."

Keywords

complainant; proprietary rights; publication