Copyright
protect creative expression
How Are Copyrights Owned?
Copyrights are not owned automatically, unless a company can prove that an employee was working within the scope of his or her employment during the entire time that the work was created. If you don't have an employment, work made for hire or assignment agreement, your company may not be able to prove that it owns a copyright in the works created for your company! Even if you own the original work, because you paid for it, a copyright is separate from the work itself.
Every creative work that your company commissions should be owned. That means that your company should be able to show a signed, written employment, work made for hire or assignment agreement for you, your employees and every consultant and vendor that authors any type of creative work.
An independent contractor must sign a work made for hire agreement BEFORE work commences on a creative work, in order for a work made for hire agreement to be effective, and it must be for a type of work specified in the Copyright Act.
copyrights
Copyright protects website content, artwork, photos, sales copy & so much more...
But copyright won't protect anything if it's not owned by your company, and the only way for a company to safely own everything, as the author, is using a written work made for hire agreement.
Lucky for you, iPscaling has an easy to customize and use template work made for hire and assignment agreement. All you have to do is sign up below, download a copy, watch the video for customizing and using the template, and ... in minutes .... your company will own everything!
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About Chris Paradies
For more than two decades, Chris Paradies has been making it his mission to help innovative and creative business owners as their patent and intellectual property attorney and business mentor. Entrepreneurs that find intellectual property a difficult concept to master appreciate Chris’ ability to simplify difficult concepts without shortchanging the subject.
Chris’ passion for helping entrepreneurs and unique background -- graduating from West Point, serving as a U.S. Army officer, earning a Ph.D. at RPI, completing his J.D., summa cum laude, facilitating startup training, and serving as volunteer Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Tampa Bay Innovation Center -- have given rise to the iPscaling® program and the Concertina® principle.
Chris lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife and two sons.
