Okanagan Nation Alliance expected to take over copyright of ‘Ogopogo’
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“Initially thought to be a straightforward assignment, the path soon became quite convoluted," the city of Vernon said in documents laying out the shift.
Part of the Ogopogo story will likely be returned this week to where the mythical creature began.
The City of Vernon, B.C., is expected to transfer copyright to the Okanagan Nation Alliance on Tuesday, though its intentions to do so were laid out months earlier, sparking a conversation that spanned the globe.
“Early in 2021, council directed (city) administration to assign the copyright in the unpublished literary and artistic work entitled Ogopogo to the Okanagan Nation Alliance,” reads a report to council to be tabled Tuesday, Oct. 12.
“Initially thought to be a straightforward assignment, the path soon became quite convoluted, including a trademark challenge from a third party, challenges to the original assignment of 1956, a wide-sweeping story in the British news service The Guardian, and numerous COVID and emergency delays. “
The city’s solicitor has now “completed the journey” and city staff are asking council members to authorize, by resolution, the Copyright Assignment Agreement between the City of Vernon and the Okanagan Nation Alliance.
The city will “assign and transfer to the Okanagan Nation Alliance all copyright, title, interest, and property in the work, together with the right and title to any derivative works arising in any way from the work, and any trademark rights arising from the commercial or non-commercial use of the foregoing copyrighted protected works or derivates thereof and any goodwill related thereto.”
The process has been given a $1 value, though it’s worth much more than the price tag may imply.
The city had held an Ogopogo copyright since 1956 when it was donated by Arthur Gilbert Seabrook, He took out the copyright in 1952, according to his obituary. Seabrook gained copyright as a marketing/promotion effort for the radio stations he was involved in.
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