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 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

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