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Originally Posted by spacedog
On the contrary, HE DOES!! He contracted & hired the work, he owns the work.
Stop shitting from your mouth & speaking out your ass.
USC Title 17, circular 92, chapter 2 section 201B
"b) Works Made for Hire. ? In the case of a work made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author for purposes of this title, and, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them, owns all of the rights comprised in the copyright"
The person paying for the work owns ALL RIGHTS.. not the other way around.
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The circumstances in which a work is considered a work made for hire is determined by the language of the United States Copyright Act:
Works Made for Hire. -- (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,
f the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. 17 U.S.C. sec 101