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Does "work for hire" extend to verbal contracts?

• dalke 11y ago
  No. See http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf . "A work created by an independent contractor can be a work made for hire only if (a) .. and (b) there is a written agreement between parties specifying that the work is a work made for hire." (Emphasis mine.)