work made for hire
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
a work prepared by an employee within the scope of the duties of his mployment, but not including a work made on special order or commission." Preliminary Draft for Revised U.S.
Copyright Law and Discussions and Comments on the Draft, 88th Cong., 2d Sess., Copyright Law Revision, Part 3, p. 15, n. 11
How often courts cite the case defining “work made for hire”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “work made for hire” — 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.