Ownership, Copyright, & Intellectual Property

Ownership

All work created during your work with Shaper/Caper remains the property of Shaper Caper Limited and we reserve the right to present, perform, adapt or modify the work in any way we deem appropriate. All images taken of you during Company photo-shoots or during performance, office work, teaching or rehearsal remain the property of Shaper Caper Ltd and we reserve the right to use these images for our publicity and marketing through print, online, social media or any other means now and in the future. When you leave the company, you have no right to use any of our creative work in any context other than fair usage in show reels or portfolios for the purposes of you seeking employment, and therefore demonstrating your work.

Intellectual Property

Shaper/Caper foresees that, during the course of your employment, you may create, originate, conceive, discover, design, develop and/or make works in or relating to which there may be intellectual property rights. Subject to the provisions of the Patents Act 1977, all intellectual property rights in or relating to all or any works made during the course of your employment shall belong to and is the absolute property of Shaper/Caper, and you agree to waive all moral rights to this.

Copyright

The copyright of any communication, document, or other material (‘works’) that you prepare during your employment shall belong to the business. You irrevocably and unconditionally waive for the full period for which such rights may subsist all and any moral rights existing now or subsequently arising in respect of such works and declare that this waiver shall operate in favour of Shaper/Caper and its assigns and successors in title.