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Ownership of Copyrights ( January 1999 )
These materials cover the Copyright Act's ownership rules, and, in less detail, the ownership rules for patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. Ownership rules discussed here apply only in the United States (other countries have their own rules of intellectual property ownership). -
Copyright Ownership: The Joint Authorship Doctrine ( October 1995 )
This article examines the importance of joint authorship to a publisher, the rights and duties of a co-author and guidelines to help publishers retain full ownership rights in creative works of authorship. -
Copyright Ownership: The Work Made For Hire Doctrine--Part I ( October 1999 )
This article examines the importance of copyright ownership and the scope and importance of the "work made for hire" doctrine. -
Copyright Ownership: The Work Made For Hire Doctrine--Part II ( June 1995 )
This article provides publishers with guidelines to follow so that they may satisfactorily meet all the requirements of the "work made for hire" doctrine, in order to preserve copyright ownership. -
Six Years Later. . . The Statuts of the Work Made for Hire Doctrine and the Reid Test after Aymes v. Bonelli ( June 1999 )
I. Introduction The 1992 landmark case, Aymes v. Bonelli, on which I served as lead counsel for the defendant,[3] . -
Copyright, Copyright, Who Owns the Copyright? (And Why You Should Care) ( May 1999 )
This is a hypothetical situation designed to show the importance of careful future copyright planning.
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