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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Chris Zielinski wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Let's not forget that it is precisely such pragmatism that stops universities from claiming the copyrights to all published academic work as work for hire, which
 of course most of it is...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Well, I wouldn’t be so affirmative. There is also something called the “academic exception”, according to which the work-for-hire doctrine may not apply in the
 academe. Much has been written in the past decade about this issue, with no definitive conclusion; see, for instance, this recent paper:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Strauss, N. S. (2011). Anything but academic: How copyright’s work-for-hire doctrine affects professors, graduate students, and K-12 teachers in the information age.
<i>Richmond Journal of Law &amp; Technology, 18</i>(1). <a href="http://jolt.richmond.edu/v18i1/article4.pdf">
<span style="color:windowtext">http://jolt.richmond.edu/v18i1/article4.pdf</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Marc Couture</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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