Skip to content
Welcome to the Student Press Law Center
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Get Legal Help
  • Donate
SPLC Logo

Student Press Law Center

  • Quick Guides
    • Covering protests
    • Coronavirus toolkit
    • Top 10 High School FAQs
    • Top 10 College FAQs
    • Top 20 Yearbook FAQs
    • Resources for educators
    • More …
  • Legal Topics
    • Legal Guides
    • Law Library
    • Amicus briefs
    • Legal Question of the Week
  • Tools
    • Financial Survival Strategies
    • Resources for teaching remotely
    • Quizzes
    • Public Records Letter Generator
    • Book an online speaker
    • FOI Lawsuit Template
    • FERPA Request Letter Generator
    • Presentations
    • Student Media Model Guidelines
  • News
    • Latest News
    • Featured Student Coverage
    • Press Releases
    • Sign up for the Newsletter
    • Podcasts
    • Magazine
    • Newsletter Archive
  • Programs
    • New Voices
    • Student Press Freedom Day
    • Summer Media Law & Policy Institute
    • Past Programs
  • About Us
    • About SPLC
    • Legal Hotline
    • Staff
    • Board of Directors
    • SPLC in the News
    • High School and College Press Freedom Awards
    • SPLC’s Impact
    • Our Donors
  • Donate

Tag: work for hire

Texas high school is requiring students in yearbook class to sign over the copyright to their work

Uncategorized
September 5, 2015September 5, 2018 Madeline Will

Attorney advocate Adam Goldstein explains the rule's "failure" in a video. The school had previously told student Anthony Mazur he couldn't sell his photos of school sports. 

Tagged anthony mazur, copyright, recent-news, Texas, work for hire

Work for hire? A guide to the legal issues involved when student journalists become ‘employees’

Legal
January 1, 2011October 5, 2020 Laura Napoli

Each day throughout the country, thousands of college students show up for work at the newsroom or the broadcast station.

Tagged "Student journalists", college, copyright, employee, employment, finances, First Amendment, liability, money, paying student journalists, public, reports, Winter 2010-11, work for hire

Student Press Law Center ⋅ 1608 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Suite 211 ⋅ Washington, D.C. 20036 USA
(202) 785-5450

splc.org/legalhelp

© 2021 Student Press Law Center
Read our Privacy Policy

Proudly powered by WordPress and hosted by Pressable