Contract/Copyright after end creation of website

are there any forms or other way to do this quick and easy

[zeus]

For the first time I have another company working for me and after they have made the site I would like a contract which says I own the site and all what to it, there must a quick way to do this, because its a logic thing when I pay for them to create a site its also mine.

[jimbeetle]

Do a search for a 'work for hire agreement.' They're usually fairly simple, but depending on your exact situation you should consider getting somebody qualified to look it over.

[Jane_Doe]

because its a logic thing when I pay for them to create a site its also mine.

Laws are not always logical.

I would suggest going to the Nolo Press site and doing a search for "independent contractors".

[BigDave]

because its a logic thing when I pay for them to create a site its also mine.

No, the logical thing is that if you pay them to create it, that they create it.

If you pay them to create it and assign you certain rights, then you are assigned those rights.

If you are paying them to create it, and assign you ALL rights, then the logical thing is for you to be assigned all the rights.

If you hire me to right a program for you, you would get different prices from me depending on whether you just get a right to use what I wrote, if you want exclusive use of that code, if you want the right to make changes for your own use, and if you want to be able to sell copies to others without paying me any royalties.

You get what you agree to, and what you are willing to pay for.

[madmac]

I wouldn't recommend a work for hire agreement in websites or software. Even with an agreement, it may not be enforceable unless it falls into one of the work for hire categories. The work for hire categories don't really seem to apply to software, and they don't seem to apply to full websites either.

What you want in the agreement is an assignment of copyright, where the person you are hiring gives full right, title, and interest in the work to you.

This gets a little tricky, because a "website" may have many components and a web developer almost always has a set of tools they use, that most likely includes common code snippets, etc...

If it's a custom job, they should have no problem assigning full rights in the graphic design to you (and this is really what you're after). However, they more than likely won't be able to do so for certain other portions of the site, such as back-end code, etc... on these portions they will give you a license to use it.