work for hire

Work For Hire Clauses: Ownership of Related Items

This week, we’re focusing on ‘works for hire’ and the contracts that control them. During the process of completing a writing project, you may do extensive research, covering a number of topics related to your client’s business. You may have intentions of rewriting the same material down the road with a different slant. Double check [...]

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Work For Hire Clauses: Proprietary Information

This week, we’re focusing on ‘works for hire’ and the contracts that control them. Depending on what sort of work for hire project you’re working on, your client may provide you with information to complete the project. This information may or may not be considered proprietary — information that they effectively own. In the most [...]

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Work For Hire Clauses: Assignment of Copyright

This week, we’re focusing on ‘works for hire’ and the contracts that control them. As I mentioned yesterday, since the Copyright Act limits works for hire to specific types of commissioned works, clients may rely on a complete assignment of copyright to make sure that they wind up with control of the work in question. [...]

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Plans for next week

Just a head’s up for next week: I’m planning to spend the whole week discussing work for hire contracts. We’ll talk a little about the legal definition of a work for hire, the specific causes and what you should look out for when signing a contract. Comment with your questions and we’ll go through them [...]

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