The work-for-hire agreement is used to protect your rights and copyrights when working with creative collaborators. Musicians, engineers, background vocalists, photographers: this is the all-important contract you need to have in place with them.
Work-for-Hire agreements are paramount to retaining ownership and control over your music. Anytime you collaborate in a creative endeavor—with a studio musician, sound engineer, mixer, art designer, even a close friend singing back vocals on your tracks—you need to have a work-for-hire agreement in place. It doesn’t matter if you’re paying them or not, it all about retaining ownership of your recordings.
This CI Agreement Course examines the Work-for Hire contract clause by clause and explains how, when, and why you need to use it. It also comes with a quality Creative Intell Work-for-Hire agreement you can download and adapt for your own purposes. There’s a lot more to hiring creative collaborators than simply paying them for their work. This course explains it all.