Hello,

My friend wrote this website: http://www.artskingston.com/ years ago
as a volunteer, and continues to maintain it.

Within the last year, she became a contract "employee" of the Arts
Council as office manager. Her duties as such include answering the
phone, handling correspondence, etc.

The President of the Arts Council (I myself am a Board member)
recently asked my friend to put "Copyright K.A.C." on the homepage.

We are wondering, by rights, who owns this website?

My sense of fair play tells me that my friend, who is the author, and
who created it totally as a volunteer would, or should (at least), own
it. I can see no reason at all why the Arts Council would own it.

The Arts Council has never paid her to create the site, that is, to
design it. They have not purchased it from her, or offered to purchase
it from her.

*Can* a website be purchased? or sold? Can she sell this website, i.e.
the design, to the Arts Council?

The domain name, of course, is the property of the Arts Council, as is
the hosting space.

If my friend puts the Copyright thing on the website, does that
thereby make it the property of the Arts Council?

Thanks in advance for any light that any of you may be able to shed on
this subject.

Mary