As discussed in Part 1, understanding the application of the Copyright Act’s works made for hire doctrine is needed to protect an organization’s intellectual ...

Each company had large legal departments that kept a sharp eye on images, design and music to make sure there was no exposure to copyright suits. My work as a designer and art director was considered ...

An original work that is “work for hire” or attached to a pseudonym has a different copyright period: 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation. It’s important to get familiar ...

17 U.S.C. §106. Ownership of a copyright "vests initially in the author or authors of the work," except that, in the case of a work for hire, "the employer or other person for whom the work was ...

while listing himself as the owner of the copyright under the work-for-hire doctrine. He sued after the office denied the registration on the basis that “the nexus between the human mind and ...

because of communications indicating that the colorist “learned in 2012 that Kirkman viewed the work for hire contract as a binding limitation on Crabtree’s ownership rights in the copyright.” ...

As AI technology quickly advances and intertwines with human creations, the unanimous opinion lays down the first precedential marker over who or what is the author of work created solely by ...

Jason Allen—a synthetic media artist whose Midjourney-generated work "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" went viral and incited backlash after winning a state fair art competition—is not giving up ...

If Alas drew the wolf as work for hire, then the band — not the artist — would own the copyright. Rubio created Bolt Hero, which relies on Chargers themes and motifs, more than a decade ago.

May 22 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's (DIS.N), opens new tab Marvel and the estate of artist Steve Ditko both asked a Manhattan federal judge on Friday to hand them a win without waiting for trial ...

For an employee's work to be a work made for hire under the act, the employee must work at the organization at the time of the work's creation, and the work must be made within the employee's ...