WORK MADE FOR HIRE - A work prepared
by an employee within the scope of his or her employment;
or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for
use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part
of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as
a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation,
as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material
for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly
agree in a written instrument signed by them that
the work shall be considered a work made for hire.
For the purpose of the foregoing sentence, a ''supplementary
work'' is a work prepared for publication as a secondary
adjunct to a work by another author for the purpose
of introducing, concluding, illustrating, explaining,
revising, commenting upon, or assisting in the use
of the other work, such as forewords, afterwords,
pictorial illustrations, maps, charts, tables, editorial
notes, musical arrangements, answer material for tests,
bibliographies, appendixes, and indexes, and an ''instructional
text'' is a literary, pictorial, or graphic work prepared
for publication and with the purpose of use in systematic
instructional activities. 17 USC
