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Copyright protection

Posted Aug 27, 2012 0:41 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Copyright protection by dlang
Parent article: Mobile patent wars: Google goes on the attack

Because editing is usually a work-for-hire, so the copyright on the edited work belongs to whomever payed an editor. However, if an author collaborates with an editor without making any work-for-hire contracts then editor indeed would share the copyright with the author.


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