Employees, Copyright, and the Work For Hire Doctrine

Sarah Alexandra Howes is publishing Picasso on Staff: Employee Classification, Copyrights, and the Creative Process in volume 7 of Cybaris: An Intellectual Property Law Review (2015). Here is the abstract.

This essay discusses the legal consequences of employee classification on the creative process. Furthermore, it compares employment laws and copyright laws to show the benefits of labeling a worker an employee to fall within the work made for hire doctrine.

Download the essay from SSRN at the link.