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Good evening, everybody!
I am working with a team of IT and Marketing specialists on an app-development project, which we intend to monetize and turn into a successful venture. We do not have the luck to count a lawyer among our members so I am very interested in this "Ask an Expert" feature.
Soon we will start farming out some of the work to third-party contractors. I would like to know: If I hire someone to work for me on a clearly defined project, do I automatically own the Intellectual Property that is created by the contractor? I assume it is probably not that simple, so what kind of steps do I have to take?
Thank you very much!
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Write into the contract that it is a "work for hire". By law, authors own copyright to works so it needs to be overriden, so also be clear what happens with partial work or in case of non-payment on your side. Also depending on code there may be prior elements such as OpenSource license emcumbrances.
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