If you’re outsourcing work, instead of doing it yourself or having an employee do it, you should consider using a work-for-hire contract to protect your legal rights.

If you’re doing work as an independent contractor, a written work-for-hire agreement sometimes is the only thing that ensures you get paid for your efforts…and it reduces your customer relations headaches by setting out the specifics of your deal so there is less confusion.

I’ve created legal forms for both types of scenarios. To learn how you can protect yourself with them, just click on this link.

About the Author

With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 14 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young shows entrepreneurs how to protect and grow their businesses online. He's the author of "Internet Marketing Legal Secrets Revealed," "How to Create Your Own Internet Business Without a Lawyer for Under $175," and the creator of Website Legal Forms Generator^TM. Not just a lawyer who focuses exclusively on Internet and marketing law, Mike’s been working with computers for more than 27 years (his first computer was an Atari 400 with 8 KiB RAM) and started representing Internet businesses back in 1996.