This document is a short form copyright assignment transferring 100% of the worldwide copyrights for a musical composition from the writer(s) to a company. It assigns rights including title, music, lyrics, arrangements, adaptations, and derivatives to the company for use in all current and future fields and technologies. It also states that the writer rendered their services as an employee for hire, making the composition a work made for hire under US copyright law.

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Short Form Copyright Assignment
For and in consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned (and each of them if there be more than one) hereby irrevocably transfers and assigns, an undivided One Hundred percent (100%) interest in and to the entire worldwide copyrights and any and all other rights, including any renewals of copyright and any and all other rights in and to the musical composition now entitled:
Composition Writer (s)
(hereinafter referred to as the "Composition") Including the title, music and lyrics thereof and all arrangements thereof and the right to arrange, adapt and create derivative works from the Composition, together with all copyrights and any and all other rights therein and thereto throughout the world, all under any law, statute, treaty or regulation heretofore now or hereafter existing, for the use of the Composition or infringement of the copyrights therein or any other legal or equitable right to the use and ownership thereof in any and all fields of use now or hereafter existing throughout the world and otherwise throughout the universe by any means or technology now known or hereafter existing.
It is agreed and understood that Writer has rendered services as an "employee for hire" of and that the Composition herein is a "work
Company
made for hire" within the meaning of the United States Copyright Act.
Writer (s) warrants that the Composition is wholly original with the Writer (s) or in the public domain throughout the world and that the Composition shall not infringe the copyright or violate any other right of any person, firm, corporation or entity whatsoever.
Writer (s) shall receive from any performing rights society (such as ASCAP or BMI) of which Writer (s) is a member of the customary so-called Writer's share of performance royalties which such Writer (s) may have the right to receive by virtue of Writer (s) membership in such society.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this transfer of copyrights to be executed this day of in the year of
By:
Address:
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