...1976 ACT PRE-REID The judicial struggle with the new work-for-hire provisions centered on the phrase "work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment."122 This may seem curious since the phrase was not new with the 1976 Act. As earlier mentioned,...

...United States Government as part of that person's official duties. 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...

...work made for hire, if the parties expressly so agreed in writing, where the work was specifically ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture, as a translation, or as a supplementary work. Section 201 (b) properly...

...States or a domestic corporation or enterprise. A "work made for hire" is defined in 17 USC 101 as (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 * * *....

...States Government as part •''•*"• of his official duties. 87 A "work made for hire" is : (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of u motion pic3 turo or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supple4 mcntary work,...

...made for hire" is : (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his 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,...

..."work made for hire" Is : (Da work prepared by an employee wlthiii the scope of his employment ; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, nx a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work,...

...Old Logging Road Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 March 31, 1978 Prior to January 1, 1978 all vork specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective vork vas automatically classified as a "vork for hire". The Federal Copyright Act of 1976 now requires...

...to indicate the deletions proposed in S. 2044 ("the Amendment"): A "work made for hire" is-- (l) 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...

...copyright. The exception is that, if a work is a "work made for hire," (defined in Section 101(1) as "a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment") the creator's employer owns the copyright, in absence of a written agreement to the contrary.)...