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Originally Posted by pornopete
Exactly, the artist has the rights, not the music studio that contracted the artist to write the music. |
The artist retains all rights unless it is explicitly defined (either by contact or
obvious circumstances) that the writing of the song is a "work for hire".
In other words : If it is established that the song writer/programmer is directly employed
as a employee for the creation of the work then the employee does not have certain
rights to the work.
Paying someone to "do a job" is not the same thing as them being an employee.
If it were, then I would simply file unemployment claims against everyone I
ever programmed for.
Nobody wants that.