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Collective work is defined as a work, such as an issue of a magazine, an anthology or an encyclopedia, in which a number of contributions, constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are assembled into a whole, see�17 U.S.C. �101.��

In�copyright�law, a copyright to�a contribution to a collective work is not the same as the copyright to the collective work.�

In�New York Times v. Tasini,�the Supreme Court held that �when a freelance author has contributed an article to a �collective work� such as a newspaper or magazine, the�Copyright Act, recognizes two distinct copyrighted works.

• Copyright in each separate contribution to a collective work is distinct from copyright in the collective work as a whole [17 U.S.C. � 201(c)].
  • Copyright in the separate contribution vests initially in the author of the contribution.
• Copyright in the collective work vests in the collective author and extends only to the creative material contributed by that author, not to the preexisting material employed in the work"�17 U.S.C.� 103(b).

See e.g., Jarvis v. K2 Inc. 486 F.3d 526 (9th Cir. 2007)