Rob,

Yeah, "work for hire" can be quite a grab, although I suspect you have
it even tougher in the music business.

In the late '70s I did a truck load of writing for the community
mental health center I was working for at the time, including a good
number of scripts for psycho-social dramas (I remember "Jane Doe,
Attorney at Law" -- a soapy series of episodes with bogus commercials
interspersed, that we presented at local, regional and national
conferences, and eventually filmed -- quite fondly) only to learn that
the whole opus was "worke for hire" and not mine. Live and learn.

I trust that with Sam's connection to the USCF, the USCF's connection
to Chess Life, and Chess Life's connection to Pal Benko, that he
couldn't be up to too many shenanigans with Benko's columns-into-book.
My guess is that Benko owns reprint rights of his columns (or got them
easily) and that Sam wouldn't publish without the GM's ok. (I hope he
has PB's ok.)

Rick