Under the 1976 Copyright Act as amended, a work is protected by copyright from the moment it is created in a fixed form. Although the general rule is that the person who creates a work is the author of that work, there is an exception to that principle. Copyright law provides that if a work is made for hire, the employer, and not the employee, is considered the author. The employer may be a firm, an organization, or an individual.
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| - Under the 1976 Copyright Act as amended, a work is protected by copyright from the moment it is created in a fixed form. Although the general rule is that the person who creates a work is the author of that work, there is an exception to that principle. Copyright law provides that if a work is made for hire, the employer, and not the employee, is considered the author. The employer may be a firm, an organization, or an individual.
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| - Under the 1976 Copyright Act as amended, a work is protected by copyright from the moment it is created in a fixed form. Although the general rule is that the person who creates a work is the author of that work, there is an exception to that principle. Copyright law provides that if a work is made for hire, the employer, and not the employee, is considered the author. The employer may be a firm, an organization, or an individual.
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