Copyrights are owned by corporations as a result of either: (1) actual human authorship and original ownership, sold to a corporation, or (2) actual human au

Copyrights are owned by corporations as a result of either: (1) actual human authorship and original ownership, sold to a corporation, or (2) actual human authorship as a work for hire on behalf of the corporation, which is a special case specifically laid out in copyright law which allows someone other than the person performing the actual act of authorship to be the original copyright owner.