Buying a logo privately

[Shadow-kitten]

I have a friend who wants to be a graphic designer and he has given me a logo for a private project before. I did not get copyright transferred as it wasn’t commercial and it wouldn’t be the end of the world if he used it elsewhere.

I would now like to acquire copyright for this and purchase another logo from him.

It’s this as simple as a paypal payment and writing a quick agreement saying that ‘all copyright is transferred to x party?’

This will be used for a not-for-profit company but I haven’t looked into how to trademark it, or even if it needs doing for our use-case.

 

[Wardy]

I have a friend who wants to be a graphic designer

That sounds a bit worrying but that's another conversation.

The agreement is really as simple or detailed as you and they want to make it. For me, most of the time it's just a matter of an email agreement,
like you say. There aren't many jobs I can use again on other projects anyway. Some clients like to have an official document that they get me to sign, which
is fine, and I believe it's quite easy to write something up like that. Trademarking is another matter and you might want to look into that.

 

[Shadow-kitten]

To be honest he has designed stuff for me before and I have been happy with it.

My main concern is that it would be a personal sale, and to my knowledge he doesn’t have a business. When I was a kid I did web design and all I had to do was declare it as earnings at the end of the financial year.

I will look into trademarking. To be honest we are an internal project and I am not even sure the project name is technically trademarked (I could be wrong).

We aren’t using it to advertise - just to make webpages relating to it look a bit nicer.

It might be that as I designed some of the software I could buy it as technically everything I produce belongs to said company? Seems like a more dangerous route though.