work-for-hire
Example Sentences
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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
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 always tell people, ‘If you just want something that sounds cool, have a composer do a work-for-hire or use a music library.’”
From New York Times ● May 14, 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
