Thread: Does DRM violate the 1st Sale doctrine
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Old 02-21-2010, 09:01 AM   #27
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Wrong. The original creator is the owner of the copyright. If they assign or sell it to someone else then that someone else is the owner.
You're right that the "original creator" holds the copyright. The catch is that under a work-for-hire/corporate authorship contract the person doing the actual creative work is never, legally speaking, the creator. This is a separate issue from transfer of copyright.
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