work for hire doc

nchphoto wrote in post #10460482
I need to hire a photog as part of my team for an upcoming event and I want what we discussed in writing.

Who Can Claim Copyright?

Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created
in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship
immediately becomes the property of the author who created
the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights
through the author can rightfully claim copyright.

In the case of works made for hire, the employer and not
the employee is considered to be the author. Section 101 of
the copyright law defines a “work made for hire” as:

1 a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or
her employment; or

2 a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as:
• a contribution to a collective work
• a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work
• a translation
• a supplementary work
• a compilation
• an instructional text
• a test
• answer material for a test
• an atlas
if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument
signed by them that the work shall be considered a work
made for hire.