[thelist] Stricter contract

[Marc Seyon]

Message from Faye Tarzwell (FayeC) (1/17/2004 08:53 AM)
>I am having a little difficulty with a past client and her wish to share 
>her logo with another website.
>My contract does have a very short clause about image copyright but I 
>would like to make it a little more stricter and detailed as per rights of 
>use and retainment of copyrights on the images.
>Can someone point me to a more strict contract either online or that you 
>might have yourself?
>I need to fix that little gap before it comes biting me *ykw*....

Did you design her logo?
If it's an official company logo it shouldn't be treated as just another 
copyrighted website image. She should have full rights to do whatever she 
wants with it. If you designed the logo you should have allowed her to buy 
full rights to it, at an appropriate price.

Rights of use and retaining copyright of images are all well and good but 
do your images really have anything so amazingly and incredibly unique that 
they are irreplaceable to your client? Do you really want to spend a whole 
bunch of time making sure that your copyrights aren't infringed?

I bet you didn't create the images for free. How much more money are you 
going to earn for licensing their reuse, compared to the time you will 
spend monitoring that aspect of your business? Why not just allow the 
clients to use the images, fully licenced, while you maintain the rights to 
display it as being your work. How many images you create for client A 
would you reuse for client B anyways?

regards.
-marc

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