...application has proven quite troublesome to the courts. The statute defines work made for hire as: (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope...that the work shall be considered a work made for hire.26 The Case of the Homeless Statue Sculptor James Earl Reid was contacted by the Community for...

...to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a sound recording, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation,...the work shall be considered a work made for hire" Iemphasis addedi. As noted earlier, P,O,P producer companies create and manufacture P,O,P advertising...

...commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as...signed by them that the work shall be considered a work for hire. If a company hires an independent contractor, it must have a written contract expressly stating...

...supplementary work 5. A compilation 6. An instructional text 7. A test 8. Answer material for a test or 9. An atlas if the parties expressly agree in a written...the work shall be considered a work made for hire (17 USC §101). Unlike the prior version of the law, the Copyright Act provides that the sale or other...

...work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, ". . . if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument...the work shall be considered a work made for hire. . . " A "work made for hire," therefore, must either be prepared by an "employee" or fit within one...

...supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material fora test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them ihat the work shal I be considered a work made for hire," If you have cheeked "Yes" to indicate that...

...author that is not a work for hire. The act provides for only two legal categories of work for hire: A "work made for hire" is — (1) A work prepared...the work shall be considered a work made for hire. Note that a master or phonorecord is not included in the list of works listed in (2). Therefore unless...

...David Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright, §5.03[A] at 5-11 to 5-12 (2005). Work made for hire is defined as: "(1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope...the work shall be considered a work made for hire." 17 USC § 101 (1994). In determining whether a work will fall within the employee's "scope of employment,"...

...Grieves, 57 Wash. L. Rep. 286 (DC 1929). 28. 17 USC 101 (articulating when a work is a work-for-hire: "a work specially ordered or commissioned for use...work shall be considered a work made for hire."). 29. See Hays v. Sony Corporation of America, 847 F.2d 412 (7th Cir. 1988); Weinstein v. University...

...employee within the scope of his or her employment, or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned as a contribution to a collective work, as a part...the work shall be considered a work made for hire. The employer or party for whom the work was prepared is considered the author of the WMFH, unless the...