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CREA TIVEFIRST COPYRIGHT 101

An assignment transfers ownership in the work. Whereas a license gives only a
limited permission for usage. If one grants an assignment of copyright in a
work, the assignee becomes the owner of the work and the copyright
ownership no longer vests with the assignor. For instance, if you have written a
script and have assigned all the rights in such script to the producer, the
producer then becomes the owner of the copyright in the script, and you
would not be entitled to claim any copyright in such script once the assignment
is complete.

Whereas in a license, no ownership is transferred. For instance, a lm
producer may approach a music label that owns rights in a song to grant a
synchronization license i.e., right to synchronize a clipping of a song to the
producer to use the song in the lm. In such a case, the producer will have the
limited permission to use the song in the lm, however, the ownership rights in
such song continues to vest with the music label.

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