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work-for-hire



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Wallace Fox was a clock puncher, a work-for-hire employee who followed instructions — which might explain his limited Internet footprint.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

Rates have fallen or stagnated in the past two decades, while in many cases, work-for-hire arrangements replaced traditional royalty contracts.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 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

“So we stopped developing games for other people, you know, work-for-hire games, which meant we have the opportunity to start entirely new projects.”

From The Verge • Oct. 29, 2019

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




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