Title
Who Owns This Article? Applying Copyright’s Work-Made-for-Hire Doctrine to Librarians’ Scholarship
Abstract
The Copyright Act of 1976 provides that works—including scholarship—written within the scope of employment belong to employers. But copyright law and actual practices widely diverge. The academic community generally allows librarians to claim ownership of their writing, even when that ignores copyright law. Mr. Hellyer supports copyright ownership by librarians, and calls for the law and common practices to be harmonized.
Document Type
Article
Publication Information
108 Law Library Journal 33-54 (2016)
Repository Citation
Hellyer, Paul, "Who Owns This Article? Applying Copyright’s Work-Made-for-Hire Doctrine to Librarians’ Scholarship" (2016). Library Staff Publications. 120.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/libpubs/120