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Subject:Re[2]: Client won't pay From:Iain Harrison <iharrison -at- SCT -dot- CO -dot- UK> Date:Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:18:47 GMT
Christopher Theisson writes:
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Typically, a contractor in the United States performs "work for hire,"
which means that all copyrights involved in any work performed by that
worker fall to the hiring company (unless there's a special and most
unusual other arrangement).
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But I'm not sure that this is true when the contract has been breached by
the hiring company failing to pay the writer.
