Common Contracts
1 similar Work Made for Hire Agreement contracts
Oral Histories: Work Made for Hire AgreementWork Made for Hire Agreement • June 24th, 2009
As noted in the chapter on copyright, the U. S. Copyright Office considers an interviewer a joint author for purposes of registration. Archives, programs, and individuals who do not use full-time employees to conduct their interviews but instead rely on free-lance or volunteer interviewers should consider requiring a Work Made for Hire Agreement if they believe that the work fits into one of the nine categories the Copyright Act denominates as Works Made for Hire by non- employees. Only three of the nine categories can be seen as encompassing an oral history interview, namely: a contribution to a collective work, a compilation, and a part of an audiovisual work.
