1300-28
1317
Renewal claimants: proprietor. (cont'd)
1317.07
Employer in the case of a work made for hire. (cont'd)
1317.07(c)
Work made for hire. In order for this claim to be applicable, as the Act explicitly states, the work must have been copyrighted by the employer for whom the work was made for hire.
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No provision is made under the literal terms of the Act for the case in which the work was made for hire, but the employer transferred his common-law literary property to a third person before either publication or registration as an unpublished work.
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When this situation is presented, the Copyright Office will register a renewal claim as "proprietor of copyright in a work made for hire," but will point out that the law makes no specific provision for this situation.
1317.07(d)
More than one author. When more than one author contributed to a work, the renewal claimant need not specify that all of the authors were employed for hire.
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If only some of the authors were employed, this fact should appear on the renewal application.
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The Copyright Office will accept claims by authors or their beneficiaries and proprietors of copyright in a work made for hire on the same application, provided that no patent inconsistency is presented.
1318
Joint renewal claimants. When the author is dead and there is more than one person in the class of beneficiaries entitled to renew under the statute, registration by one claimant secures renewal for all those who would have been entitled to claim.
[1984]
