work-for-hire
Example Sentences
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But the copyrights involved are complicated, and the studio or producers involved may hire a composer on a work-for-hire basis with no royalties due.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 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
I mention these because “Presto and Zesto in Limboland,” which is being published as a newly discovered work by Sendak, actually got its start as work-for-hire.
From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 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
