...1976 ACT PRE-REID The judicial struggle with the new work-for-hire provisions centered on the phrase "work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment."122 This may seem curious since the phrase was not new with the 1976 Act. As earlier mentioned,...

...of the United States Government," which is defined in section 101 as "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties." Under this definition a Government official or employee would not be prevented from securing copyright...

...§ 105. Sec. 101 defines a "work of the United States Government" as "a workpreSared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official uties." While works of the US Government are not protected under US copyright laws, protection may...

...under the law of his domicile at the time of his death, whether or not the spouse has later remarried. A "work made for hire" is: (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his employment : or tion, or as supplementary work, if the parties expressly agree in writing that the...

...Recommend that the definition of a "work made for hire" be amended at page i. lines 24 and 25 to read "(1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his employment, or, in the case of an officer or employee of the United State* Government, as part of his...

...under the law of his domicile at the time of his death, whether or not the spouse has later remarried. A "work made for hire" is: (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective...

...Government" is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of his official duties. A "work made for hire" is : (1) a...work prepared by an employee within the scope of his employment ; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective...

...our nation's creative free lancers. APPENDIX A SECTION l0l - excerpt giving work-for-hire definition A "work made for hire" is— (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scop*, of his or her employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution...

...copyright. The exception is that, if a work is a "work made for hire," (defined in Section 101(1) as "a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment") the creator's employer owns the copyright, in absence of a written agreement to the contrary.)...

...definitions of section 101, this means that copyright cannot be claimed in works prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties. The federal government may in certain instances, however, receive and hold copyright's transferred...