RookyCakes
New Member
First and foremost, hello everyone!
I just signed up to this forum today, so my apologies should this not be the right place to post this, but I saw that there are so many people here that are great at helping and so I thought "why not give it a try"
I just started doing freelance work, and with this one it's a little tricky.
It originally just started with some minor illustrations and character design for something, but ended up with me also doing logo design, animations and layout for the same person's project.
We did not really set a proper contract as it was mostly just work between friends. Now of course the client wants to publish it and needs a form of legal agreement and set his people on to help him with this. They sent me a small paragraph to sign over all the rights, which I found to be a rather bad idea and refused. The client himself is absolutely fine with just having the usage rights, so it should not be too much of a problem.
But this is where I would really appreciate your help.
This is the little bit of contract they had originally sent me:
"The freelance designer, [ME], acknowledges that (except to the extent prohibited by or ineffective in law) any intellectual property which exists in any of the work (i.e. drawings, designs, graphics and/or animation) and materials embodying them shall automatically belong to [client's company] as from creation and (except to the extent prohibited by or ineffective in law), [ME] hereby assigns, by way of present and future assignment, any and all right, title and interest therein to [client's company]
Permission is granted by [client's company] for [ME] to use any of the work for promotional purposes (i.e. display the work in [my] design portfolio to promote [my] freelance design services) providing it does not constitute a conflict of interest towards the services and products offered by [client's company] "
Should I in this case just switch around the client's company and my name or is there a contract as simple as this I could find online that I could use?
Any help here would be very, very appreciated, I am still new to all of this and I find it all very confusing as English isn't my first language.
Thanks in advance to all of you beautiful people,
RC
I just signed up to this forum today, so my apologies should this not be the right place to post this, but I saw that there are so many people here that are great at helping and so I thought "why not give it a try"
I just started doing freelance work, and with this one it's a little tricky.
It originally just started with some minor illustrations and character design for something, but ended up with me also doing logo design, animations and layout for the same person's project.
We did not really set a proper contract as it was mostly just work between friends. Now of course the client wants to publish it and needs a form of legal agreement and set his people on to help him with this. They sent me a small paragraph to sign over all the rights, which I found to be a rather bad idea and refused. The client himself is absolutely fine with just having the usage rights, so it should not be too much of a problem.
But this is where I would really appreciate your help.
This is the little bit of contract they had originally sent me:
"The freelance designer, [ME], acknowledges that (except to the extent prohibited by or ineffective in law) any intellectual property which exists in any of the work (i.e. drawings, designs, graphics and/or animation) and materials embodying them shall automatically belong to [client's company] as from creation and (except to the extent prohibited by or ineffective in law), [ME] hereby assigns, by way of present and future assignment, any and all right, title and interest therein to [client's company]
Permission is granted by [client's company] for [ME] to use any of the work for promotional purposes (i.e. display the work in [my] design portfolio to promote [my] freelance design services) providing it does not constitute a conflict of interest towards the services and products offered by [client's company] "
Should I in this case just switch around the client's company and my name or is there a contract as simple as this I could find online that I could use?
Any help here would be very, very appreciated, I am still new to all of this and I find it all very confusing as English isn't my first language.
Thanks in advance to all of you beautiful people,
RC