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
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
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
Was this a normal TV director work-for-hire deal, or did you have more leeway with the script?
From The Verge • Oct. 25, 2016
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
