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- Title: Rhoads V. Harvey Publications Inc.
- Author : Arizona Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 02, 1981
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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The facts of the case, viewed most favorably to appellants, are as follows. Appellant Fred Rhoads is a cartoonist. Appellees are New York corporations and directors, officers, and principal shareholders of those corporations, engaged in the business of publishing comic books. For twenty-three years beginning in 1954, Rhoads was engaged by appellees to produce cartoons featuring the character "Sad Sack" for publication in appellees' comic books. During that time, appellees told Rhoads that he was an employee of their business. Believing that an employee was legally unable to reserve the copyrights to work done for his employers, Rhoads did not do so. In fact, he waived all copyrights by executing indorsements to that effect on payment checks received from appellees. Upon termination of the parties' relationship in 1977, Rhoads learned that he had actually been an independent contractor. He then brought suit alleging that appellees had fraudulently represented his status so that he would not retain the copyrights to his work.
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