Use this fact situation to answer the related questions that follow. Alice worked as an employee of a large computer conglomerate,but without an employment contract dealing with ownership of new software programs.As part of Alice's job,she produced a very unique software program for routing emergency calls to the U.S.Homeland Security Office.
In this case,the software program can only be
A)copyrighted by Alice.
B)copyrighted by the company.
C)patented by the company.
D)patented by Alice.
E)copyrighted by the Homeland Security Office.

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Alice worked for a company and did not have an employment contract regarding ownership of new software programs. Therefore, the software program she produced belongs to the company as a work made for hire. As such, the company can hold the copyright for the software program.

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