Who Owns the Copyright to Your Artistic Work? You or Your Employer?

Posted by on Jul 13, 2011 in Art, Copyright, Employment, Entertainment, Film, Intellectual Property, Music, News, Television | 0 comments It may come as a shock to some people that an individual could create fabulous artistic work and have absolutely no rights to the work. How is this possible you ask? Well, federal copyright law states that if you have created artistic work under a “work for hire” arrangement, you are not the owner. The person who commissioned you to create that work, actually owns the work. Unlike a person...
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