Re: a question about software and the work for hire doctrine

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Tyler Ochoa <tochoa[_at_]law.whittier.edu> wrote:
>
> Software is not on the list, so software can be a "work made for hire"
> ONLY if it happens to also fall within one of the nine types. In my
> experience, software companies routinely seem to disregard this
> inconvenient fact.

My sense is that almost all commercially viable software packages will be "collective works," making contributions to them subject to this provision. I would be hard-pressed to find any commercially available computer program that consists of a single module (even if the final distributed packaging puts all modules into a single .EXE file).

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