Talk:Freelancer/Archives/2012

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See Ninja? Is this just vandalism or does it actually have something to do with Japaneese views of Freelancers? Psycho Medic 04:12, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It could be... various (uncited) historical factoids were contributed by Heavypen. -- Robocoder ( talk | contribs ) 13:09, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Coined by Walter Scott in the 18th Century?! In Spain (Castille) the Castillian Lances or Free Lances (lanzas castellanas or lanzas libres) were in use (and named like that) during the Reconquista (completed in 1492). Let me find the reference, and will update the article.

This article should be extended with legal information on every country. At least about every English speaking country. The laws may vary a lot from one place to another. --Calítoe.:. 07:41, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

"In the past three years, companies have increased their outsourcing by 22% on the internet." This statement is meaningless without a date (past three years since when?). It's also not clearly relevant (outsourcing doesn't necessarily imply hiring freelancers). Finally, when one considers that it lacks citation, it should probably be stricken. --anon 24.63.202.34 (talk) 21:27, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Merge?
International freelancing is quite a short article, and could be made into a section in this article, rather than expanding the original article which could be difficult, time consuming and just repeating what is in this article Mkmetalhead (talk) 20:47, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I'll do the merge. It still needs at least one citation though. -- OlEnglish (Talk) 03:05, 10 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I've deleted it for the reasons given in the edit log. No doubt transnational freelancing is worth a &sect; of its own, but what was there was, as observed above, virtually nothing. Now it's really nothing and ready to be virtually something. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 14:26, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Redirects for common fields involving freelancing
I think there should be redirects for the specific fields listed where specific articles are not written (after "fields where freelancing is common"). For instance, "freelance tour guiding" should probably redirect here. I made one redirect I felt was needed (I used the redirect for "freelance writer" to this page as a precedent for redirecting "freelance novelist" to "freelance writer", feeling that at the least, the latter should have its own article at some point, and that the concept of freelancing is more what people are looking for when they look up either of these two terms), but I didn't want to change them all as I'm not sure of the precise policy of redirecting complex terms. For instance, perhaps "freelance tour guiding" should be redirecting to "tour guiding", but then, perhaps it should redirect to "tour guiding". E.g., should a complex term for which its parts have articles be redirected to the aspect of the term that is more common, less common, or not redirected at all? At the least, "tour guiding" should come up as a suggestion for "freelance tour guiding", but it does not... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Squish7 (talk • contribs) 22:27, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Notes on Transnational Freelancing
While there is substantial movement of labor across international borders, and likely to be more, there's an inertia in dealing with the general set of beliefs and attitudes in classifying labor and labor relations, the latter being basically the essential nature of society. For example illegal immigrants from Mexico who work as minimum wage workers in the US are, in essence, just as much Freelancers as European IT workers who contract to US ventures, service vendors, whatever. So as stated in the lede of wage labour there's a class assignment vs. semantics dissonance. If a new section is added should show some numbers, say something about the exploitation of the manual labourers, relations to modern slavery, etc. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 14:36, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Copyright ownership of commissioned works
The discussion in para 5 seems a bit muddled regarding ownership of copyright in commissioned works, stating, "They have no copyright to the works, which are written as works made for hire, a category of intellectual property defined in US copyright law..." This would not generally be true for most types of work, assuming "They" refers to the freelancer. The freelancer is the author and therefore automatically owns the copyright, except in specific categories of work (e.g., supplementary works, compilations, audiovisual works, textbooks, etc) and only if there is a signed written contract saying it is a WMFH. The ONLY possible way for the client (publisher or customer) to own the copyright of a commissioned work that is not within any of the 9 defined categories is to obtain a written transfer (assignment) of those rights from the independent author. For example, a freelance computer programmer would almost certainly own the copyright of the program created to solve a customer's problem. Am I missing something, or does this paragraph seem to misstate the US law? Lupinelawyer (talk) 08:32, 12 July 2012 (UTC)