• About.com, Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:01 PM

Who owns the copyrights for the SEO and meta-tag data? Lahle Wolfe warns Web site owners that the company you hire might own the rights, but in most states if you hire someone under a "Work for Hire Agreement," the rights are yours.

Wolfe also provides insight into laws and tips on retaining your rights, and how signing away your rights could become a costly mistake. Not all companies are unscrupulous, but Wolfe tells what happened after a company paid thousands of dollars for SEO work and thousands more for the monthly right to use the meta-data created: "When they canceled their monthly contracts, the SEO companies stripped their entire sites of all meta data."

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