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Start-Up Wins Copyright “Work-for-Hire” Dispute Over Software, Ninth Circuit Holds

By Barry Barnett on April 6, 2010

The Ninth Circuit yesterday upheld a judgment that a software writer wrote software as an "employee" of JustMed, Inc., a start-up company that set out to make a "digital audio larynx", rather than as an "independent contractor".  The distinction made a difference because federal copyright law deems the works of an employee the property of…

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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