Over the past few months I’ve received a slew of questions about ghostwriting, such as: “Who hires a professional ghostwriter?”
Other questions included:
- How much do ghostwriters make?
- If I wrote (something) for my client as a ghostwriter, can I do… (fill in the blank) with it?
I thought I’d answer the questions about professional ghostwriting in an article.
Firstly, let’s look at our definition of a “professional ghostwriter.” He or she is a writer or author who’s hired by a client to write something, under a work done for hire agreement, or a specific ghostwriting agreement.
Whatever the agreement is, once the work is created and paid for, all copyright in the product devolves to the hirer.