What are Work for Hire rights?
You will only be asked to submit your content under Work for Hire rights when submitting certain content via the Assignment Desk, and it will be clearly marked within the assignment details. Under Work for Hire rights, the hiring party (either Associated Content or an AC partner) steps into the shoes of the writer/creator and becomes the author of the work for copyright purposes. All of the attributes of copyright ownership – including credit and control – vest in the hiring party, not the creator. The copyright only transfers to the hiring party upon payment of the writer/creator. These rights are essentially identical to Exclusive rights, except they allow for Associated Content to easily pass the full copyright of your content to its content partners. This type of agreement is very common between freelance writers and magazines or other compilation or collective work.
