RE: do Christmas carolers infringe copyright?

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Robert E. Jones, III wrote:

> Slightly off-topic, does anyone recall that Rudolph the Red-Nosed
> Reindeer started off in a promotional item for Montgomery Wards
> http://www.wards.com/HTML/RLmay.html? Not only that, but that
> Montgomery Wards turned the copyright back over to the employee who
> wrote it who still owns the copyright in it?

The original poem, not the song by Johnny Marks (which is the version we probably all know): yes.

<http://www.snopes.com/holidays/xmas/rudolph.htm>

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