work-for-hire
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Alloy hired Smith on a work-for-hire contract — meaning she did not own the rights to her characters — but she did not realize it at the time, the Wall Street Journal reported in 2014.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
Her steady career as an art-house filmmaker and a work-for-hire television director is ordinary, but the insights she offers into the profession are rare.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022
But Shipwright Studios, a "work-for-hire" studio that contributed to some of Tripwire's games, wrote it was ending a three-year relationship because of Mr Gibson's comments.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2021
Nobody bit, and Welles spent the last decade of his life moving from talk-show appearances to wine commercials and other work-for-hire projects.
From The Verge ● Nov. 1, 2018
His history as a sideman extends to work-for-hire situations, creative peers like the guitarist Mary Halvorson and veteran bandleaders like the trumpeter Dave Douglas.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2015
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