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
That’s from “Lives of the Poets,” a work-for-hire project that became Johnson’s final masterpiece, one which he hoped would give its readers what he called “useful pleasure.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2019
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
