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Intellectual Property

Dec. 18, 1999

Hired Gun

Individuals and companies walk a minefield when ensuring that they own what they think they ought to own.

        By Jeffrey L. Malek and Roger Wilcox Cloud
        
        When a business has paid for outside work product, it often assumes that it owns that product, thinking, "We paid for it - it's ours." Typically, this happens in the context of the company hiring an outside person to create what a company does not have the ability to accomplish in-...

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