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I received an excellent comment from our post Defending Work-For-Hire and found myself writing a rather lengthy response, so instead of extending the comments I decided to write a follow-up to the first article.

It’s about turf; it is critical to avoid freelancers

I recently had a colleague who owns a local marketing firm put forth a mild defense of work-for-hire by stating, "there's a good reason why companies would use Work-For-Hire."

The most common defense of work-for-hire boils down to "they have a right to protect their

In twelve years, our intrepid editor has only come across two legitimate Spec jobs. But in that same time, Work-For-Hire has been an omnipresent shadow. In fact, in the past two years alone, we have seen an incredible increase in the number of local companies, ad

 In essence, Stop Work-For-Hire is attempting to bring professional artists together in an effort to create a sense of "team" in an increasingly hostile business environment. How does one create a groundswell of support among cliques of small studios and independent

Big phone and cable companies are trying to get rid of Network Neutrality, the principle that protects our ability go where we want and do what we choose online.

We must pass this bill to protect everyone's right to search the Web, share videos and photos, connect

This will allow large corporations to take advantage of the limited understanding of Federal Copyright Law by artists, illustrators and other individuals who provide creative services.

These two bills would require the authors of so-called "orphaned works" to go