Hi everyone, I am hopping you can help me.
A client doesn’t want to pay me, can I withhold some copyrights?
I was hired to work on the branding of a UI app. At the beginning, I sent an invoice with the full amount with 3 separate payments due dates: 50% initiation, 25% second payment (UI screen competition) and 25% (website design-which client doesn’t want me to work anymore)
I created the logo, tag line, visual look of screens, icons and guideline book. All these was approve by the client but at the end of second delivery, before starting the web design, my client who also had hired a UI/UX team decided that she didn’t need my UI designs after all and now she doesn’t want to pay me for some of the work done and approved. She offered to pay me 70% of the second payment which I have accepted. Can I keep some of the copyright of the logo to negotiate full payment? For example, can she will have the copyright of the logo for the UI app but not for print or web. Any advice or thoughts would be very welcome.
A client doesn’t want to pay me, can I withhold some copyrights?
I was hired to work on the branding of a UI app. At the beginning, I sent an invoice with the full amount with 3 separate payments due dates: 50% initiation, 25% second payment (UI screen competition) and 25% (website design-which client doesn’t want me to work anymore)
I created the logo, tag line, visual look of screens, icons and guideline book. All these was approve by the client but at the end of second delivery, before starting the web design, my client who also had hired a UI/UX team decided that she didn’t need my UI designs after all and now she doesn’t want to pay me for some of the work done and approved. She offered to pay me 70% of the second payment which I have accepted. Can I keep some of the copyright of the logo to negotiate full payment? For example, can she will have the copyright of the logo for the UI app but not for print or web. Any advice or thoughts would be very welcome.