Is it legal to copy a layout/theme?

Our company currently pays a 3rd party to create InDesign documents for us. We are considering hiring somebody full time for this. However, we have a layout and theme that we would like to keep. Can somebody own legal rights to the theme or layout of an InDesign document?

John Hawkinson wrote:
If you paid a company, or if the person you paid can be construed as an independent contractor or freelancer and not an employee, then it is not a Work for Hire and they probably own it.
It also probably depends on where you come from.  In little ol' N.Z. we've never heard of the term "Work for Hire".  If you pay someone to create something it's yours, just like if you pay them to create a logo it's yours.  A template or theme would be no different.  In fact a "theme" is part of your branding, if someone else has any copyright over that whatsoever your company has made a blunder.  Imagine (far fetched though it may be) that the agency that created any blue chip companies branding could then go and flog that off to their competitor...

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