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[This doesn't settle the current discussion, but it may help
establish the issues better. - Carl]

          17 United States Code

          SECT101. Definitions

[...]
     A "work made for hire" is- (1) a work prepared by an employee
     within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work
     specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a
     collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other
     audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a
     compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer
     material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly
     agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall
     be considered a work made for hire.
[...]

- Carl
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ANNOTATED REFERENCES

(All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)

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law/copyright.act.pointer
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* Copyright -- U.S. Law -- Full text -- Pointer

If you have access to gopher, you can access the text of the U.S.
Copyright Act.

gopher fatty.law.cornell.edu
   -->    9.  Legal Information Institute/
        -->    1.  Copyright Act/

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If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command
   gopher gopher.eff.org

These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):

  pub/academic/law/copyright.act.pointer

To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
name):

send acad-freedom/law copyright.act.pointer

-- 
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me.
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