Editing Work for hire (section)

=== Relationship to author accreditation ===
Accreditation has no impact on work for hire in the US. The actual creator may or may not be publicly credited for the work, and this credit does not affect its legal status. States that are party to the [[Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works]] recognize separately [[copyright]]s and [[Moral rights (copyright law)|moral rights]], with moral rights including the right of the actual creators to publicly identify themselves as such, and to maintain the integrity of their work.<ref name="Article6bis">Berne Convention Article 6bis [https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/text/283698#P123_20726] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523095521/http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/text.jsp?file_id=283698#P123_20726 |date=23 May 2018 }}.</ref>

For example, [[Microsoft]] hired many programmers to develop the [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] [[operating system]], which is credited simply to Microsoft Corporation.  By contrast, [[Adobe Systems]] lists many of the developers of [[Photoshop]] in its credits. In both cases, the software is the property of the employing company. In both cases, the actual creators have moral rights. Similarly, newspapers routinely credit news articles written by their staff, and publishers credit the writers and illustrators who produce [[comic books]] featuring characters such as [[Batman]] or [[Spider-Man]], but the publishers hold copyrights to the work. However, articles published in academic journals, or work produced by freelancers for magazines, are not generally works created as a work for hire, which is why it is common for the publisher to require the copyright owner, the author, to sign a [[Copyright Transfer Agreement|''copyright transfer'']], a short legal document transferring specific author copyrights to the publisher. In this case the authors retain those copyrights in their work not granted to the publisher.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}