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That's the default, but I'm pretty sure the contract can say AOL gets the copyright.
by metageek 15y ago
That's the default, but I'm pretty sure the contract can say AOL gets the copyright.
- chopsueyar 15y agoThe content creator licenses the content. Not a "get". 17 U.S.C. § 101 A "work made for hire" is— (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. Collective or supplementary work? Not sure.
- metageek 15y agoJust because it's not a work made for hire doesn't mean the company can't receive the copyright. A copyright holder is always free to transfer the copyright; if AOL has two brain cells to knock together, their contracts with these contractors include a clause saying that the copyright is transferred to AOL.
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