Who actually owns the copyright for code that my freelance developer wrote for my new website last month when I paid him in full?
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
Who actually owns the copyright for code that my freelance developer wrote for my new website last month when I paid him in full?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
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OBSERVED
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
Classifying 1 queries…
Searches and sources
ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
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- Circular 30 Works Made For Hire · copyright.gov
- Group Registration of Unpublished Works: Author · copyright.gov
- uscode.house.gov · uscode.house.gov
- What is Copyright? · copyright.gov