Monday, April 5th, 2010
9th Cir: The Work-for-Hire Doctrine under the Copyright Act
The 9th Circuit has affirmed a finding that a small tech start-up company owned the copyright to source code written by a remote computer programmer. In so doing, the court rejected out-of-circuit authority and held that the absence of required tax documents (no W-2 and W-4 forms), non-compliant tax treatment (no withholding), and the absence of fringe […]