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"If there is no signed written agreement, then the work isn't for hire, and you start out with all the rights. If there is a written agreement, it should be entered into before you create the work. Beware of after-the-fact attempts to take away your rights by calling the work "for hire," for example by sending you a check whose endorsement line says that your signature is your agreement that the work was for hire."

Cf. https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/translations%2FCoursera%20Translator%20TOS.pdf , l'accordo imposto da Coursera ai volontari che traducono i sottotitoli dei video di lezioni.

"Other resources: PDF of US Copyright Office circular "Works Made for Hire Under the 1976 Copyright Act" Text of US copyright law "Chapter 2 - Copyright Ownership and Transfer" Article: "Working with freelancers: What every publisher should know about the "work for hire" doctrine." A short analysis of Community For Creative Non-Violence v. Reid the seminal U.S. case on the topic Music Law.com's page on work for hire Legal information site's page on "Works Made for Hire Under the Copyright Act" Video: Protecting Your Work: Understanding Publishing, Copyright, and "Work For Hire"" Law Review article: "Pre-existing Confusion in Copyright's Work-for-Hire Doctrine" The Writing for Children Resource Site article: "The Work-for-hire question" EFF article: "Film Schools Teach Wrong Copyright Lesson" Academy for Creative Media FAQ on the Student Copyright Agreement KeepYourCopyrights.org page on Work for Hire Wikipedia article on work for hire"

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Example + comment: "This language is designed to grab all rights from a free-lance author or artist. The first clause purports to create a work for hire agreement, which would mean that the author has no rights left at all, ever (and cannot even get them back through the termination right). The second clause takes a belt-and-suspenders approach: if for any reason the work is not for hire -- which it would not be if the commissioned work did not fall within the statutory categories -- the author explicitly assigns all rights not only in this work, but in any work based on this work, for the full term of copyright, for the whole world."

The example is very close to the language of https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/translations%2FCoursera%20Translator%20TOS.pdf