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- babaganush0
' The thing is that if it becomes successful or makes money, the person you hired to do some of the work wants a piece of it even though I paid them to do the work.'
Depends if they agree that you paid for the work in perpetuity. If that isn't stipulated it can be a grey area as copyright still exists automatically once someone creates something and it can be argued that you just 'license it'. That's why multinational branding is large budget.
- Once you are paid to build it and they did not spec license, its not a license.********
- Unless you agree in contract that the 'work is for hire' it isn't yours eternally.babaganush
- Also depends what is 'created'babaganush
- Yah, I should draft contracts...********
- If you mean a web build there's probably not a lot of IP attachedbabaganush
- Interesting thought.********
- Once you are paid to build it and they did not spec license, its not a license.