work-for-hire

Since the product arrived in 2018, the bowdlerized version of “Magic” — first rerecorded by work-for-hire musicians, and then re-rerecorded by Paton at Abbey Road — has taken its place alongside such classics of the form as Subway’s “Five Dollar Foot Long” and McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It” as marvels of marketing ingenuity.

Jones alleged that he was “under an implied work-for-hire agreement” with Combs and lived with the recording giant for months at a time in Combs’ homes in Los Angeles, New York City and Miami, as well as several weeks on a yacht rented by Combs in the U.S.

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

Jones alleged that he was “under an implied work-for-hire agreement” with Combs and that he lived with the recording giant for months at a time in Combs’ homes in Los Angeles, New York City and Miami, as well as several weeks on a yacht rented by Combs in the U.S.

There were the work-for-hire recording dates that allowed him to pay train fare and rent rooms, smooth-talking label owners who approached him with more terrible contracts when his sides made the Billboard charts, or misspelled his name on purpose so he’d lose track of himself and his royalties — and the women who dictated those erroneous contracts aloud like love spells, restoring some of his professional agency in exchange for his affections.