Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults of Louisiana, Inc. v. Playboy Enterprises

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that there is no reason why the work for hire doctrine should alter the authorship of a joint work made by a hiring party and an independent contractor and finding a joint work to exist without analyzing the parties’ intent to be joint authors
• describing cited language as Brattleboro’s “critical twist” on established work-for-hire doctrine
• “[T]he ‘actual control’ test of Aldon Accessories ... slides too easily into the vague and expansive ‘right to control’ test, as the decision in Evans Newton may portend.”
• One who gives a number of layman's suggestions to another who fixes musical performance into a videotape is not the author of the videotape nor its sole copyright owner
• discussing historical evolution of presumptions in work-for-hire context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).