Often our clients are faced with the situation in which they intend to pay someone to create copyrightable content for them in connection with their businesses.  This arises frequently in the entertainment industry and related tech businesses as well, as it is becoming a common practice to simply hire an independent contractor to create content where it is too expensive, burdensome, or impossible to create such content oneself.  For example, companies frequently engage contractors to design their logos and other graphic elements for their company branding and websites.  Other content creators, such as filmmakers, television producers, authors, and musicians, engage the services of others to create portions of their final artistic products (writing music, creating animation or illustrations, etc.).