25-03-2025, 09:07 AM
I agree, the courts found it part of matrimonial property, just like kiwisaver, property, a business, or other asset built during a long term relationship. But that doesn't impinge on copyright as intellectual property, it reinforces it if anything. It doubles down on the fact that creativity is a real asset, and when that creativity results in work it has ownership rights that can be established and proven.
After all, if a court can find that other professionals leaving such a relationship during which the basis of that profession was mutually supported and developed, and the fruits of that can be shared beyond the relationship, why shouldn't that apply to creatives? Are we not professionals with skills and expertise that form worthy assets? Bankable assets, worth investing in? Is not our practice a business?
After all, if a court can find that other professionals leaving such a relationship during which the basis of that profession was mutually supported and developed, and the fruits of that can be shared beyond the relationship, why shouldn't that apply to creatives? Are we not professionals with skills and expertise that form worthy assets? Bankable assets, worth investing in? Is not our practice a business?