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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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.

sued 2 Live Crew in objection to letters of termination sent in 2020 to reclaim the rights of their first three albums amid the 35th anniversary of their releases under U.S. copyright law.

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 ...

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 ...