Re: Re: arranging fees


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Posted by Rick Denney on March 07, 2001 at 18:16:44:

In Reply to: Re: arranging fees posted by Gus Pratt on March 07, 2001 at 14:41:30:

Gus,

Are you sure about this?

If you are an employee (in the statutory sense), then all work is considered work-for-hire, and the employer owns the copyright. But if you are not an employee, then taking money for an arrangement does not automatically waive your copyrights. In fact, your copyright can only be assigned in writing. So, for an independent contractor, the contract has to state that it is work-for-hire, and thus that the customer owns the copyright. If it is silent, then the author owns the copyright.

At least that's the way it is in my business. We are allways doggone sure that our contracts include a work-for-hire clause to keep our contractors from owning what we've paid for.

Maybe something has changed that I missed.

Rick "who buys authoring services of various sorts" Denney


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