IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE CONTRACT OR AGREEMENT.
You can not take someone's creative process if it is not stipulated in any agreement whether written or verbal. You have to set what is being paid for. Even eq settings is a creative process, tracking settings are a creative process, how you made the recording with certain tools is a creative process. Again, it is not that simple because you could argue that the engineer followed under your direction and they were just the puppet. This would all have to be argued in court when the time comes, but what for???? Before you hire anyone for anything, be straight upfront what is included and what the terms and conditions are and have it in WRITING and signed.
You will have a hard time legally getting the negatives to a film, the coding to a software, the mix session of a song if you do not have an agreement to release those materials in the first place.
This is just my take on it.
You can not take someone's creative process if it is not stipulated in any agreement whether written or verbal. You have to set what is being paid for. Even eq settings is a creative process, tracking settings are a creative process, how you made the recording with certain tools is a creative process. Again, it is not that simple because you could argue that the engineer followed under your direction and they were just the puppet. This would all have to be argued in court when the time comes, but what for???? Before you hire anyone for anything, be straight upfront what is included and what the terms and conditions are and have it in WRITING and signed.
You will have a hard time legally getting the negatives to a film, the coding to a software, the mix session of a song if you do not have an agreement to release those materials in the first place.
This is just my take on it.