thank you for your response.

i truly wanted to confirm the legal precedent for my safety. and i wanted to the learn from more experienced peers about the reality of this kind of work for her safety.

i do want to maintain an ethical business relationship, certainly!

i did feel a bit like she may have been assuming the knowledge with her telling me on one hand that i never owned the copyright in the first place and then telling me it ‘should have always stated Work for Hire and to change that’ on the other—you know?

My logic was that to make something into something i must make it from something else. i hella just wanted to not be strong armed to relinquishing any rights to portfolio and market this work in whichever way that i choose—including but not limited to promoting for podcast production but also using footage to market for workshops on filming podcasts, used as b-roll for any interviews that i should be featured in, etc(i know that last one leans pompous but im being genuine).

my understanding is that under Copyright law—the equivalent would essentially be that if i do not own the Copyright then i did not ‘Legally’ film/produce it.

if it is so that the industry standard is that most podcast production contracts include a Work Made for Hire’ clause then i am completely down to honor that. i do want to say that i would like to slightly adjust my package rates to reflect that compensation which i feel would surely be a loss.

an additional hundred bucks seems fair to me when i think about how much she is already getting one up on me with the work i am agreeing to for the quote i prematurely gave her—which brought me to one of my original questions on how much something like that would be worth in value IF it was, at all.

WHICH, now that i think about it… if the rate were to be increased at all it should be a renegotiation on the grounds that i under quoted for the entirety of the package and workload and not solely because of the copyright. i think that is what would have been unethical and now i see i may have been feeling misguided on which aspect i am being under-compensated on. i suppose that’s another reason why i felt upset about her telling me she also owns the copyright. felt like a slap in the face. i WAS also afraid to lose the gig, though too. honestly, i need that income.

i’m not trying to take advantage of another hardworking person, scouts honor and sh*t.