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
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
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
