Sample Contract Clause
Consultant agrees to transfer and assign, and hereby transfers and assigns, to Company and its designees, without further compensation, the entire right, title and interest throughout the world in and to: (a) all Technical Information first produced by Consultant in the performance of this Agreement; (b) all Intellectual Property resulting from Consultant’s activities under this Agreement; (c) all Intellectual Property relating to any Deliverables under this Agreement; and (d) creations and inventions that are otherwise made through the use of Company’s or its affiliates’ equipment, supplies, facilities, materials and/or Proprietary Information. All such Technical Information and Intellectual Property that are protectable by copyright will be considered work(s) made by Consultant for hire for Company (as “works made for hire” is defined in the United States Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101) and will belong exclusively to Company. If by operation of law any of such Technical Information or Intellectual Property is not owned in its entirety by Company automatically upon creation, Consultant agrees to transfer and assign, and hereby transfers and assigns, same as stated in the first sentence of this Section.
This is an agreement between a photographer and a media conglomerate. It stipulates that the work is to be classified as a 'Work Made For Hire' and that all copyrights in the work will belong to the hiring party.