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I keep seeing people put 'work for hire' in contracts without knowing what it means
Just read a contract from a new customer that said 'work for hire' but then listed a bunch of rules about how I couldn't use the work in my portfolio. That's not how that works at all. A real work for hire clause means they own everything from the start, but I can still usually show it off unless we say otherwise. I've had to explain this three times this month alone. It matters because if you sign a bad one, you could lose rights you didn't mean to give up. Has anyone else run into this mix-up lately?
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sanchez.julia21d ago
Tell me about it, I see this all the time now. I mean, people just copy a term they heard without getting what it actually does. It's super frustrating because you're right, signing a bad one can really mess you up. I had a client last year who tried to say the work for hire meant I couldn't even talk about the project. Had to walk them through the whole thing, it's exhausting. Makes you wonder where they even find these contract ideas.
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milalewis21d ago
Wait they said you couldn't even talk about the project? That's a whole new level of wrong. It's like they're mixing up a work for hire with some kind of secret spy agreement.
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