Work for Hire Contract Clauses (85)

Work for Hire. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Executive agrees that the Company shall be the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in and to any and all works, materials, ideas, products, services, developments, projects and other matters developed, created, conceived, suggested, submitted or otherwise worked on by Executive, either solely or in collaboration with others, at any time during Executive's employment with the Company, and all other results and proceeds of se...rvices performed by Executive (collectively, the "Property"). In that connection, Executive acknowledges and agrees that all Property shall be considered a "work made for hire" for Company as that term is defined in §101 of the 1976 Copyright Act. Executive will promptly disclose in writing to the Board of Managers complete information concerning all Property developed, created or conceived by Executive, either solely or in collaboration with others. To the extent the Property, or any portion thereof, is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or administrative agency not to be a "work made for hire," Executive hereby assigns all proprietary rights in the Property to Company without further compensation, and further agrees to execute, without any further compensation, any and all documents deemed necessary or appropriate by Company to effectuate a complete transfer of 9 ownership of all rights to Company throughout the world. Executive also agrees that Company shall have the sole and exclusive right in perpetuity to use, exploit, distribute and otherwise turn to account any or all of the Property, and that Company may modify, change or alter all or any part of the Property, all as Company may determine from time to time in its sole discretion. Executive hereby waives any "artist's rights" or "moral rights" which Executive might otherwise have in any Property. Executive hereby agrees that Company may modify or change any Property in its sole or absolute discretion without notice to Executive. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term "Property" shall not apply to or include, and the Company shall have no rights in, any intellectual property then in the public domain, or any intellectual property that Executive developed entirely on Executive's own time without using the Company's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for that intellectual property that either: (i) relates at the time of conception or reduction to practice of such intellectual property to the Company's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the Company; or (ii) result from any work performed by the Executive for the Company. View More

Work for Hire. Executive agrees that all marketing, operating and training ideas, sourcing data, processes and materials, including all inventions, discoveries, improvements, enhancements, written materials and development related to the business of the Company ("Proprietary Materials") to which the Executive may have access or that the Executive may develop or conceive while employed by the Company shall be considered works made for hire for the Company and prepared within the scope of employment and shall be...long exclusively to the Company. Any Proprietary Materials developed by the Executive that, under applicable law, may not be considered works made for hire, are hereby assigned to the Company without the need for any further consideration, and the Executive agrees to take such further action, including executing such instruments and documents as the Company may reasonably request, to evidence such assignment. View More

Work for Hire. (a) Work for Hire. The Developer expressly acknowledges and agrees that any all proprietary materials prepared by the Developer under this Agreement shall be considered "works for hire" and the exclusive property of the Company unless otherwise specified. These items shall include, but shall not be limited to, any and all deliverables resulting from the Developer's Services or contemplated by this Agreement, all tangible results and proceeds of the Services, works in progress, records, diagrams,... notes, drawings, specifications, schematics, documents, designs, improvements, inventions, discoveries, developments, trademarks, trade secrets, customer lists, databases, software, programs, middleware, applications, and solutions conceived, made, or discovered by the Developer, solely or in collaboration with others, during the Term of this Agreement relating in any manner to the Developer's Services. (b) Additional Action to Assign Interest. To the extent such work may not be deemed a "work for hire" under applicable law, the Developer hereby assigns to the Company all of its right, title, and interest in and to such work. The Developer shall execute and deliver to the Company any instruments of transfer and take such other action that the Company may reasonably request, including, without limitation, executing and filing, at the Company's expense, copyright applications, assignments, and other documents required for the protection of the Company's rights to such materials. (c) Notice of Incorporation of Existing Work. If the Developer intends to integrate or incorporate any work that it previously created into any work product to be created in furtherance of its performance of the Services, the Developer must obtain the Company's prior written approval of such integration or incorporation. If the Company, in its reasonable discretion, consents, the Company is hereby granted an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, distribute, modify, publish, and otherwise exploit the incorporated items in connection with the work product developed for the Company. View More