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Supreme Court Judgment 9523/2544 — Suchat Asawamanachai v Thai Capital Finance Co Ltd
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Supreme Court Judgment 9523/2544 — Suchat Asawamanachai v Thai Capital Finance Co Ltd
- Cita
- ฎีกา 9523/2544
- Tribunal
- Supreme Court of Thailand, Intellectual Property division
- Instancia
- última instancia
- Fechas
- year
- 2001
- Estado
- year-only-reporter
- Resultado
- Employee ownership and return obligation affirmed; damages reduced from THB 200,000 to THB 20,000.
- Resumen
- The employee-author retained copyright absent a written agreement vesting it in the employer.
- Antecedentes
- An employee created IBM A/S400 financial software systems for the employer and allowed use without charge. After leaving employment he withdrew permission and sought return while the company continued to use the programs.
- Historia procesal
- The employee sued for return/value and damages. The Central IP and International Trade Court ordered return and awarded THB 200,000. The employer appealed directly; authorship was treated as admitted because it was not specifically denied. The Supreme Court kept the ownership/return ruling and reduced damages to THB 20,000.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Who owned computer programs created in employment absent a written allocation under Copyright Act section 9.
- Criterio
- The employee-author retained copyright absent a written agreement vesting it in the employer.
- Fundamento decisivo
- Employment and access to the employer's system do not by themselves transfer copyright from the person who created the program.
- Límites
- The case concerns authorship/ownership of source programs, not authorship of their runtime outputs. Authorship was procedurally admitted, so the judgment did not develop a causation or creative-control test for computer-generated content.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- Final Supreme Court authority on section 9 allocation; only an analogy for separating ownership of an AI system from output authorship. Integración/votación: Three-judge panel: Phinit Phetroong, Sermsak Phlattura and Phichit Khamfaeng (Thai transliteration); individual votes/separate opinions not published.
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Supreme Court Judgment 9523/2544 — Suchat Asawamanachai v Thai Capital Finance Co Ltd
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- Autoridad
- ThaiDeka reproduction identifying source as the Office/Division of Supreme Court Judicial Assistants
- Tipo
- national employee-software ownership analogue; not an AI-output case
- Localizador
- ThaiDeka ย่อสั้น paras on s 9 and continued use; เนื้อหาคำพิพากษา opening claim and final disposition; ข้อมูลฎีกา coram/source
- Verificación documentada
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