Why a Work for Hire Agreement Should Be Signed in Advance
Crystal Broughan, Intellectual Property Attorney Sep 19, 2019 in Basics of Intellectual Property
Tag: work for hire
In the late 1970s, a US federal statute formalized the concept that a work is innately copyright protected at the time of creation. As written, “A work is created when it is ‘fixed’ in a copy or phonorecord for the first time.” While every creator naturally has copyright to any original form of expression, the United States Copyright Act of 1976 also outlines exceptions to those protections. One of those exceptions is the “work for […]
Continue Reading