Chris Zielinski wrote:

>
Let's not forget that it is precisely such pragmatism that stops universities 
from claiming the copyrights to all published academic work as work for hire, 
which of course most of it is...
>

Well, I wouldn’t be so affirmative. There is also something called the 
“academic exception”, according to which the work-for-hire doctrine may not 
apply in the academe. Much has been written in the past decade about this 
issue, with no definitive conclusion; see, for instance, this recent paper:

Strauss, N. S. (2011). Anything but academic: How copyright’s work-for-hire 
doctrine affects professors, graduate students, and K-12 teachers in the 
information age. Richmond Journal of Law & Technology, 18(1). 
http://jolt.richmond.edu/v18i1/article4.pdf

Marc Couture

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