24-03-2025, 09:45 PM
Copyrights can be bought & sold and I can't see any reason they should be given special status with regard to application of relationship property rules. NZ has pretty inflexible relationship property rules which are only "fair" in that they apply to all couples equally, but they're rarely fair to both parties in a split. But then, it is so often next to impossible to know, let alone prove, who "contributed more" to the financial value available to be split up.
Based on what Oh-hunnihunni says, it sounds like the husband played more of a part in the creation of her art's "value" than she (or the rather one-sided article) gives him credit for, not that that is actually relevant to how marital assets are legally required to be split. And I know that in my case, even though my wife has had zero direct involvement in setting up and growing "our" business, and wouldn't know the first thing about how to run it, she has still been absolutely integral to enabling me to do what I do. So, if we're ever short sighted enough to let our marriage "peter out", I wouldn't genuinely be able to assert that she isn't morally & ethically entitled to take a big chunk of credit for what "I've" created anyway. Would that make the legally mandated 50/50 split be "fair"? It'd be impossible to say.
Based on what Oh-hunnihunni says, it sounds like the husband played more of a part in the creation of her art's "value" than she (or the rather one-sided article) gives him credit for, not that that is actually relevant to how marital assets are legally required to be split. And I know that in my case, even though my wife has had zero direct involvement in setting up and growing "our" business, and wouldn't know the first thing about how to run it, she has still been absolutely integral to enabling me to do what I do. So, if we're ever short sighted enough to let our marriage "peter out", I wouldn't genuinely be able to assert that she isn't morally & ethically entitled to take a big chunk of credit for what "I've" created anyway. Would that make the legally mandated 50/50 split be "fair"? It'd be impossible to say.