Legal Question in Business Law in Georgia

It depends on the terms of your independent contractor agreement. Some arrangements are �works for hire,� which means they would own any proprietary product you create. Have a local business attorney review it and provide guidance regarding ownership.

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Whether the company owns the rights to your presentation will depend on whether the work was created as a Work-For-Hire. Given that you worked as an independent contractor for the company, it is likely that any work created during that employment was assigned to the company, as determined by the employment agreement.

However, the fact that you were not paid the contractual amount for your services may amount to a breach of the employment agreement by the company. If so, any assignment of rights (copyrights) of your creative work may also be void due to the breach.

Please feel free to contact an Intellectual Property Attorney at our office to resolve your copyright issue.

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