Legal Opinion
Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 5, 1989No. 88-293PublishedCited by 1,116 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
In this case, an artist and the organization that hired him to produce a sculpture contest the ownership of the copyright in that work. To resolve this dispute, we must construe the “work made for hire” provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976 (Act or 1976 Act), 17 U. S. C. §§ 101 and 201(b), and in particular, the provision in § 101, which defines as a “work made for hire” a “work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment” (hereinafter § 101(1)).
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Petitioners are the Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV), a nonprofit unincorporated association dedicated to…
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