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Tom Cruise is an employee at the Acme Oil Drilling Co. (Acme) where he is an equipment engineer and designer. Acme has been having particular

Tom Cruise is an employee at the Acme Oil Drilling Co. (Acme) where he is an equipment engineer and designer. Acme has been having particular problems drilling in a particular location due to the density of the rock none of its drill bits can penetrate the rock. Toms boss asks him to develop a drill bit that will drill through the dense rock so they can finish drilling. As usual with his job, Tom takes photographs of the rock and soil samples to help with his drill bit design. With the help of those photographs, Tom is able to design a new, unique and never-before-seen drill bit that will do the job and which has millions of dollars of value in the industry. Further, one of the pictures he took is an image of striated rock that shows an image that looks remarkably like the Statue of Liberty. The picture goes viral, and Tom immediately begins selling prints of the Statute of Liberty image on posters, T-shirts and hats, and he makes $1,000,000 from those sales. Which two (2) of the following are false?

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E. Acme can sue Tom for copyright infringement to collect the money he made from selling the posters, T-shirts and hats using the Statue of Liberty look-alike image.

A. Tom took the photographs, but Acme owns the copyright in them.

B. Tom will be listed as the inventor on the patent for the drill bit.

C. Acme will own the patent on the drill bit.

F. Tom owns the copyright in the pictures he took that look like the Statue of Liberty because he is the author and may do with them as he pleases.

D. Tom can sue Acme if it attempts to manufacture and sell the drill bit without his permission.

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