First, if the work is deemed a work made for hire, the author and owner is the employer (or hiring party), and the creator (i.e., employee or independent contractor) has no exclusive rights in the ...

Accordingly, a copyright claimant has the option of filing multiple copyright applications, one for each work, or when they are part of a collection, filing them together in a single application ...

“A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” a visual art piece created by the "Creativity Machine," an AI system generated by computer scientist Stephen Thaler (Thaler's complaint to the U.S. District Court of ...

That is, a contract provision stating that in the event a work is not deemed a work made for hire (e.g., the work was created outside the scope of employment), all ownership interest in the ...