[Fmpro] Question regarding Buyout Agreements

[Mark Northam]

It's likely that out of your existing copyright(s), you would create a new
work with its own copyright - it's called a "derivative work". Derivative
works are made up in whole or in part of other copyrighted works arranged,
sampled, etc. to form a new work.

It's a lawyer question, but I would say it would be extremely unlikely that
the owner of the work for hire would have any "backwards" rights to your
original copyrighted works that you arranged to create the new work, but
there could be some argument there on your employer's part - probably best
to avoid doing this if possible.

Best,

Mark Northam


Whether the owner of the new work, your employer, would have any righ


On 7/9/07 6:55 PM, "Nicholas Pavkovic" <nicholas at pavkovic.com> wrote:

> Just a hypothetical question... as I've never actually been presented
> with a buyout agreement and (consequently) have never read the fine
> print. What happens when, as part of a buyout or work-for-hire, you
> decide to arrange some previously-composed musical themes (whose
> rights you own). Does your client then only own rights to the
> particular arrangement you wrote for them? Or is this the kind of
> thing that would be explicitly forbidden in the contract in order to
> avoid ambiguity?
> 
> Thanks,
> N
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