From the course: Podcasting: Business and Law
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Employees and contractors
- [Voiceover] Employees and independent contractors. If you are paying workers to create content for your podcast, or if you are paid to prepare a podcast for someone else, here are a few things you need to know. If you podcast for an employer, your employer owns the copyright. Usually the person who creates the podcast is the owner of the podcast copyright, but that's not the case when an employee creates a podcast within the scope of his or her employment, what is known as a work made for hire. So for example, if one of your tasks at your job is podcasting, your employer owns the copyright in all of your podcasts. If you're not an employer and you create podcasts as a contractor, the employer may not own the copyright. An independent contractor, IC, provides services on a per-project basis, usually for a number of clients. An employee on the other hand, is not running his or her own business, but follows the rules and standards set by the employer. When an independent contractor is…
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