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Subject:Re: Copyrights and legal agreements From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:56:46 -0800
At 01:48 PM 12/16/96 -0600, Chris Hamilton wrote:
>Colleagues--
>I have to sign an "employee protective agreement" at my job. The part of
>the agreement having to do with copyright says:
>EMPLOYEE hereby acknowledges that any copyrights created while he/she is
>an employee of (company name) shall be considered a word made for hire
>with title thereto in (company name).
Surely there is little controversy here. We should all know that we're hired
pens and that everything we write using company resources belongs to the
company. The same is true, by the way, for screen writers in Hollywood.
--Wayne Douglass
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