Independent Contractor Agreement

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR AGREEMENT

This Independent Contractor Agreement (the “Agreement”) is made and entered between _____________________________, an independent contractor hereafter referred to as “Contractor”, and ____________________, hereafter referred to as “Company”.

In consideration of the covenants and conditions hereinafter set forth, Company and Contractor agree as follows:

1. SERVICES

Contractor shall perform the following services for the Company (the “Work”).

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2. REPORTING

Contractor shall report to ______________________________. Contractor shall provide a weekly written report to the Company on his progress on assignments.

3. TERM

This Agreement shall commence on __________, 20___ and shall expire on __________, 20__. Contractor agrees to perform services for the Work to Company on or before the expiration of the term set forth above. The Company may terminate the use of Contractor’s services at any time without cause and without further obligation to Contractor except for payment due for services prior to date of such termination. Termination of this Agreement or termination of services shall not affect the provisions under Sections 5-11, hereof, which shall survive any termination.

4. PAYMENT

Contractor will be paid for Work performed under this Agreement as follows:

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Contractor will submit an invoice for the Work on ___________________________. Invoices shall be paid by the Company within 15 business days of receipt.

5. CONFIDENTIALITY AND OWNERSHIP

1. Contractor recognizes and acknowledges that the Company possesses certain confidential information that constitutes a valuable, special, and unique asset. As used herein, the term “confidential information” includes all information and materials belonging to, used by, or in the possession of the Company relating to its products, processes, services, technology, inventions, patents, ideas, contracts, financial information, developments, business strategies, pricing, current and prospective customers, marketing plans, and trade secrets of every kind and character, but shall not include (a) information that was already within the public domain at the time the information is acquired by Contractor, or (b) information that subsequently becomes public through no act or omission of the Contractor. Contractor agrees that all of the confidential information is and shall continue to be the exclusive property of the Company, whether or not prepared in whole or in part by Contractor and whether or not disclosed to or entrusted to Contractor’s custody. Contractor agrees that Contractor shall not, at any time following the execution of this Agreement, use or disclose in any manner any confidential information of the Company.
2. To the extent any inventions, technologies, reports, memoranda, studies, writings, articles, plans, designs, specifications, exhibits, software code, or other materials prepared by Contractor in the performance of services under this Agreement include material subject to copyright protection, such materials have been specially commissioned by the Company and they shall be deemed “work for hire” as such term is defined under U.S. copyright law. To the extent any such materials do not qualify as “work for hire” under applicable law, and to the extent they include material subject to copyright, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary rights protection, Contractor hereby irrevocably and exclusively assigns to the Company, its successors, and assigns, all right, title, and interest in and to all such materials. To the extent any of Contractor rights in the same, including without limitation any moral rights, are not subject to assignment hereunder, Contractor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives all enforcement of such rights. Contractor shall execute and deliver such instruments and take such other actions as may be required to carry out and confirm the assignments contemplated by this paragraph and the remainder of this Agreement. All documents, magnetically or optically encoded media, and other tangible materials created by Contractor as part of its services under this Agreement shall be owned by the Company.

6. RETURN OF MATERIALS

Contractor agrees that upon termination of this Agreement, Contractor will return…