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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	NoJive, When you talk to the lawyer's office, make sure this is the way they work. Most of my experience with lawyers has been that they start charging you from the minute you walk into their office or they pick up the phone to talk to you, and they round up any time they spend. So if they talk to you for ten minutes, you will be charged for fifteen or thirty minutes depending on how they charge. I have even had more than one lawyer start asking me questions about problems with their computers and then send me a bill that included that time. Make sure you and the lawyer agree on what you are getting and what you will pay [b]before[/b] you start talking to them. Ramasax, It is not that work for hire laws do or don't apply when you're working freelance. Who ends up owning the product depends on how you work out the contract. If you spell out in the contract the you retain ownership then the peice is not a work for hire. If you specify in the contract that you are creating the piece for the client, then the peice is being created work for hire. The simplest way to think about this is to assume there are really no provisions in copyright law for transferring ownership of a copyright. So the person that the piece was created for retains the copyright. It is good that you and the client are having this discussion now so that you can make it clear in the contract what will happen to the product when you complete it and there will be fewer mis-understandings then. As JK said, everyone used to assumed that the artist retained ownership of the product after the completion of the contract and there are still many artists who insist on working this way. However, more and more clients are taking the attitude that if they can't have complete control of the product after the end of the contract, they will find someone else. And since there are pelnty of artists who would rather work and get paid than not work and retain ownership, it's easy for the client to find someone else. . -- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful. [url=http://www.hyperbole-software.com/] [img]http://www.hyperbole-software.com/ozone/hyperbole-88x33.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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