[thelist] A Standard Contract for Web Designers

there is no such critter as a standard contract.
This question appears on lists all the time.
my contracts (3) are;
simple work for hire,
designer subcontract,
and the you get nothing and i retain all rights to absolutly everthing i do
for you including custody of your first born contract !

my contracts work for me in phoenix arizona. they will probably fall on
their face elsewhere.

Ivan love has been on the web forever and has some good reading.

http://home.earthlink.net/~ivanlove/web.html

if you want to stay in business past your first court appearance, you need
to choose your lawyer carefully.

Your best bet is to find a firm who regularly writes contracts and defends
them in court.

they will talk to the copyright people, trademark people, and all the other
people that you could conceivably end up in court against.

equally important is a company structure to insulate your personal assets
against attachment.
House car, clothes, cat, etc.
the quick and dirty setup is a Limited Liability Corporation LLC, which may
or may not be available where you work.
errors and ommissions insurance.

doing this for a living starts out simple, but as you become successful, you
end up in areas you would not have thought of when you started.

alan herrell - the head lemur
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Help a Site http://domain-issues.org
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