From the course: Contracting for Creatives
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What is a work-for-hire, or contractor, agreement?
From the course: Contracting for Creatives
What is a work-for-hire, or contractor, agreement?
- Working for someone else. In general, a person is entitled to keep any work he or she produces. There is, however, an important exception to the principle that you own all the copyright rights in a work you create or even the simple product of your own labor. If you are an employee and what you create is done as part of your employment, then your employer, not you, owns all the rights. This is a consequence of the Works Made for Hire Doctrine in copyright law. If you are not an employee, you are a contractor, commonly referred to as a freelancer, and your business contracts will take the form of contractor agreements, of which work for hire agreements are a subset. Note here, these kinds of contracts are often called many different things. Consulting agreements, contract for freelance work, there are many different titles. The key to remember is that they are all flavors of contractor agreements. Okay, so we're going to get a little legalese-y here. Section 101 of the Copyright Act,…
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