hiring party
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 490 U.S. 730 - Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid · 1989Most cited · 2,298 citing opinions
to refer to the party who claims ownership of the copyright by virtue of the work for hire doctrine.
How often courts cite the case defining “hiring party”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “hiring party” — 2,277 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.