Copyright: work for hire

Elements that can be used to determine of an item is a "work for hire," meaning the copyright belongs to the employer instead of the creator:
  • Right to control
  • Who exercised actual control
  • Back to a common-law definition of employee
  • Salaried (a formalistic definition of employee)
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