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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Clear this out for me: if you consider that the "Godfather" materials are not considered works-for-hire then under what condition did Puzo co-wrote the screenplays? Did Puzo work for hire, or did he get the get the copyright for the screenplays?
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As far as I know, it's all standard copyright.
Puzo sold Paramount control over the characters,
after the first book was published and became a huge best seller.
He died in 1999, and it is his estate that wants to publish a sequel without permission of Paramount, which owns the rights to those characters.
Nothing about this dispute has any connection to "work for hire." It's all about what is in the contracts, period.