Ownership of Copyright

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1. Subject to section 178’s specific rules, who owns copyright in an original literary or artistic work?
2. Absent contrary agreement, who owns copyright in work resulting from an employee’s regularly assigned duties?
3. For a paid commissioned work by a creator who is not the commissioner’s employee, what is the default copyright rule ab…
4. An employee writes an original poem unrelated to regular duties using the employer’s time and materials. No contrary fa…
5. Two co-authors produce a joint work containing separately usable parts whose respective authors can be identified. What…
6. A patron pays a freelance painter to create a portrait and receives the original canvas. No written copyright-transfer …
7. An employee’s regular assignment is to create training illustrations. The employer and employee expressly agree that co…
8. Compare copyright ownership in employee-created work within and outside regular duties.
9. Explain ownership of the work versus copyright in a paid nonemployee commission.
10. State the joint-authorship ownership rule and the exception for identifiable separately usable parts.
11. Under Section 178.6, who owns copyright in a letter, subject to Civil Code Article 723?
12. Which contributor is expressly included among the copyright owners of an audiovisual work under Section 178.5?