copyright on description

[Curtis Clark]

On 2005-06-03 09:12, Richard.Zander at MOBOT.ORG wrote:
> assuming our
> contracts can be interpreted as producing publications for hire.

The work-for-hire rules in the United States are *very* specific, and
university faculty are almost never covered, mainly because they are
almost never assigned to produce specific works.

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ9.html
http://www.rhetoric.msu.edu/ip/fac_wfh.pdf

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