Hi,
My partner and I have been asked by a distributor / investor to rewrite a script that they own the rights to. It's not our original work, but we're doing a total page 1 overhaul. We'd like to get a contract in place, but I can't find a template or sample for such a thing. It would be a work for hire agreement, right? The ones I find online assume I am the original writer. Do I just take one of those and write it to fit our situation? Does the original writer need to sign something? If not, how to go about mentioning him in the contract?
Non-union and not getting paid for the writing, but may make some off the finished film as we're producing/directing as well.
Any help would be appreciated. Is this even our job or should the hire-er be doing this stuff?
My partner and I have been asked by a distributor / investor to rewrite a script that they own the rights to. It's not our original work, but we're doing a total page 1 overhaul. We'd like to get a contract in place, but I can't find a template or sample for such a thing. It would be a work for hire agreement, right? The ones I find online assume I am the original writer. Do I just take one of those and write it to fit our situation? Does the original writer need to sign something? If not, how to go about mentioning him in the contract?
Non-union and not getting paid for the writing, but may make some off the finished film as we're producing/directing as well.
Any help would be appreciated. Is this even our job or should the hire-er be doing this stuff?
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