work-for-hire
Example Sentences
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As independent journalists, both assert that they had retained the copyrights and never “executed any work-for-hire agreements” or transferred their intellectual property.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2025
Knight is looking for ways to eliminate the work-for-hire documents many commercial choreographers have been required to sign for decades, giving up legal rights to their dances in order to receive their daily rates.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 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
Gibson seems to have regarded it as a work-for-hire situation even back then.
From The Verge • Jun. 24, 2019
Had the writing been conducted as part of Hurston’s fieldwork for the Federal Writers’ Project — making it a government work-for-hire and public domain?
From Washington Post • May 7, 2018
