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Les contrats, en langage clair
Des modèles à rédiger avec Lex, les clauses qui comptent, comment fonctionne le droit là où vous êtes, et des guides pour les studios, les agences et les freelances.
Modèles
NDAs & IPMutual NDAA mutual NDA lets two businesses share confidential information both ways before a deal, and says what each side can do with it.Lire →Client workStatement of workA statement of work sets the scope, deliverables, milestones and fees for one project under a wider services agreement.Lire →Client workServices agreement (MSA)A services agreement sets the standing terms for every project with a client, so each new job needs only a short statement of work.Lire →HiringIndependent contractor agreementAn independent contractor agreement hires someone to do work as a business of their own, setting the work, pay, ownership and how the arrangement ends.Lire →Client workFreelancer agreementA freelancer agreement sets the brief, deliverables, rate, rights and payment terms between a freelancer and a client.Lire →Client workConsulting agreementA consulting agreement sets out advice and expertise you provide to a client, billed by the day, the month or the project.Lire →PartnershipsSubcontractor agreementA subcontractor agreement brings in help on a client project, passing down the right terms from your client contract.Lire →Client workRetainer agreementA retainer agreement sets a monthly fee for a set amount of your time or availability, and what happens to unused hours.Lire →NDAs & IPPhotography licenceA photography licence lets a client use your photos for set uses, places and time, while you keep the copyright.Lire →PartnershipsInfluencer agreementAn influencer agreement sets the posts, platforms, dates, usage rights and payment for a brand campaign with a creator.Lire →Client workWebsite build agreementA website build agreement covers designing, building and launching a site: pages, CMS, rounds of changes, hosting handover and ownership.Lire →HiringOffer letterAn offer letter offers a role with job title, salary, start date and key terms, usually before a fuller employment contract.Lire →Client workGraphic design contractA graphic design contract sets scope, revisions, rights and payment for a design project so both sides know what is included and when it is done.Lire →Client workVideography contractA videography contract covers the shoot day, deliverables, usage rights and payment, plus cancellation, rescheduling and releases.Lire →Client workMusic producer agreementA music producer agreement sets the producer’s fee, credits and any royalty share, and who owns the master and stems.Lire →
Par juridiction
🇬🇧 Mutual NDA · England and Wales🏴 Mutual NDA · Scotland🇬🇧 Statement of work · England and Wales🇺🇸 Statement of work · New York🇬🇧 Services agreement (MSA) · England and Wales🇺🇸 Services agreement (MSA) · New York🇬🇧 Independent contractor agreement · England and Wales🏴 Independent contractor agreement · Scotland🇬🇧 Freelancer agreement · England and Wales🇬🇧 Consulting agreement · England and Wales🇬🇧 Subcontractor agreement · England and Wales🇬🇧 Retainer agreement · England and Wales🇬🇧 Photography licence · England and Wales🇬🇧 Influencer agreement · England and Wales🇬🇧 Website build agreement · England and Wales🇬🇧 Offer letter · England and Wales
Guides
GuideBest contract software for UK freelancers (2026): drafting, negotiating and e‑signing comparedShort answer: if you still need to agree the words with a client, use a two‑sided contract tool (that’s our job). If you already have a finished PDF and only need signatures, an e‑signature product is faster. Below we compare Bonsai, HoneyBook, PandaDoc, DocuSign, SignWell and Rocket Lawyer UK.Lire →GuideBest NDA generators in the UK (2026)Short answer: if both sides still need to agree the words, use a two-sided NDA (that is our job). If you only need a starting Word or PDF file, a free template from Writford, AI Business Kit or the GOV.UK IPO examples is enough. Below we compare those tools with NDASafe, Vordex and Rocket Lawyer UK.Lire →GuideBest AI contract generators for UK businesses and freelancers (2026)Short answer: if both sides still need to agree the words, use a two-sided contract room — that is our job. Spellbook and Genie AI help one side draft. Juro is CLM for in-house teams. ChatGPT can sketch text, but it is not a contract room and it does not sign. Below we compare those tools with PandaDoc AI.Lire →GuideBest e-signature tools for UK small businesses (2026)Short answer: if the document is already agreed, an e-signature product collects names on that file. If you still need to agree the words, use a two-sided room first, then sign. Below we compare DocuSign, Adobe Acrobat Sign, Dropbox Sign, PandaDoc, SignNow, Yousign and Zoho Sign with Contracts.io.Lire →GuideWhat do I do when a client won't pay my freelance invoice (UK)?Chase the unpaid invoice in writing, then send a letter before action. For a business client you can add statutory interest at 8% above base rate plus a fixed fee. Give 14 days, or 30 if they are an individual. If they still do not pay, start a money claim — small claims in England and Wales go up to £10,000.Lire →GuideClient using your work without paying? Your UK rights as a freelancerYou usually still own the copyright. Chase the invoice as a debt, and tell them to stop using the files until they pay or you agree a licence. Write the next contract so rights pass only on full payment.Lire →GuideClient cancelled: can you keep the deposit? UK freelancer rulesThere is no default right to keep a deposit or charge a kill fee. It has to be in the contract. Business clients: the sum must not be a penalty. Consumers: a 14-day cancellation right can apply, and the term must be fair.Lire →GuideIs a wedding videographer's deposit refundable in the UK?A couple who cancel a wedding film do not automatically get the booking fee back, and a videographer does not automatically keep it. The contract has to say what the money is, and a consumer term still has to be fair. This page is for videographers writing booking terms, and for couples reading them.Lire →GuideWhich contract clauses put a UK freelancer inside or outside IR35? (2026 checklist)No clause, on its own, puts you inside or outside IR35. Medium and large private-sector clients, and all public authorities, decide status and must issue a Status Determination Statement. Small private-sector clients leave the decision with your company. HMRC looks at the contract and the working practices together.Lire →GuideDoes a photographer have to hand over RAW files to a client in the UK?No, unless the contract makes RAW files a deliverable. You are the first owner of copyright in the photographs. Commissioning the shoot does not move that copyright. The client gets the edited files you agreed to deliver, on the licence or assignment you signed.Lire →GuideHow do you write a contract?Most of a good contract is decided before anyone writes a word, and the writing is mostly about saying those decisions once, clearly.Lire →GuideWhat goes in a freelance or contractor agreement?Freelance agreements, contractor agreements and consulting agreements are mostly the same document with different names, and the parts that matter are scope, payment and ownership.Lire →GuideWhat is an NDA, and what do you negotiate in one?An NDA is a short contract about one thing, information, and almost everything worth negotiating sits in four definitions.Lire →GuideYour client redlined your contract: what to doA redline is a proposed change, not a signed deal. Read each one, decide what you can live with, then reply on the same paper.Lire →
Clauses
IndemnityForce majeureLimitation of liabilityGoverning law and jurisdictionTerminationConfidentialityIntellectual property assignmentPayment termsEntire agreementAssignment and subcontractingNon-compete and restrictive covenantsNon-solicitationWarrantiesDispute resolutionData protectionLate-payment interestCancellation and kill feeNoticesAuto-renewalChange control
Le droit par pays
🇬🇧 England and Wales🏴 Scotland🇮🇪 Ireland · en attente🇺🇸 New York🇺🇸 California🇺🇸 Delaware · en attente🇺🇸 Texas · en attente🇺🇸 Florida · en attente🇨🇦 Ontario · en attente🇦🇺 New South Wales · en attente
Blog
ArticleCan I use ChatGPT to write a contract?You can use a general chatbot to get a first draft. The work is in checking the parts it cannot know: your scope, payment, ownership and the law that applies — and in agreeing the words with the other side.Lire →ArticleWhat an indemnity clause actually movesAn indemnity is a promise to pay for a specific kind of loss, and the interesting part is always which losses, from whom, and up to how much.Lire →ArticleForce majeure: what counts, what doesn'tForce majeure lets a side off the hook for events outside its control, but only for the events the clause names and only for as long as they last.Lire →ArticleNet 30, net 14, on receipt: payment terms in plain wordsPayment terms are a number and a starting point, and most late-payment arguments are really about the starting point.Lire →ArticleIs an electronic signature legally binding?In the places covered here, an e-signature is treated as a signature, and the exceptions are about formalities such as witnesses, not about the technology.Lire →ArticleDeed or agreement: which one are you signing?A deed is a contract with extra formality, and in England and Wales the formality changes how it is signed and how long a claim can be brought.Lire →ArticleWhat a statement of work adds to a services agreementA statement of work describes the job; the services agreement above it describes the relationship, and the two are kept apart so the job can change without reopening everything else.Lire →
Glossaire
NDA (non-disclosure agreement)Statement of workRetainerDeedConsiderationCounterpartGoverning lawIndemnityLiability capWithout prejudiceBreach of contractE-signatureMaster services agreementMilestoneKill feeAddendumNet 30Net 60Payment termsLate feeRevision limitDepositIP assignmentLicencePre-existing materialsWarrantyConfidentialityJurisdictionTermination for convenienceForce majeureRedlineCounterpartyWork for hireNon-competeNon-solicitMutual NDAOne-way NDALetter of intentHeads of termsEntire agreement clauseSeverabilityNovationAssignmentVariation clauseLiquidated damagesPenalty clauseImplied termsCondition precedentMaterial breachRepudiatory breachFrustrationMisrepresentationMoral rightsExclusivity clauseTime is of the essenceBoilerplateExecuted version
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Comment nous sourçons nos énoncés juridiques
Chaque énoncé juridique cite une source primaire (legislation.gov.uk, gov.uk, lawcom.gov.uk, law.cornell.edu, sites des législatures d’État) avec la date à laquelle nous l’avons vérifiée. Tout ce que nous n’avons pas pu ouvrir sur la page officielle est marqué « en attente de vérification » et n’est pas pris pour acquis. Les pages portent un badge « en attente de relecture par un avocat » tant qu’un avocat ne les a pas lues.
Questions fréquentes
Que trouve-t-on sur cette page ?
Des liens vers toutes les ressources : les modèles que vous pouvez rédiger avec Lex, la bibliothèque de clauses, le droit par pays, les guides pas à pas, le blog et le glossaire. Si vous partez de zéro, lisez comment rédiger un contrat, puis choisissez le modèle qui correspond à votre accord.
Par où commencer si j’ai besoin d’un contrat vite ?
Décrivez l’accord et Lex le rédige, puis vous modifiez le texte juridique en langage clair. Pour un projet précis avec un livrable défini, un cahier des charges rattaché à un contrat de prestation de services est courant ; pour une capacité continue, un contrat de retainerUn retainer est un arrangement par lequel un client verse une somme régulière pour s’assurer un volume de temps défini ou un accès continu à un prestataire.Plus dans le glossaire est habituel ; pour un échange en amont, un NDAUn accord de confidentialité (NDA) est un contrat par lequel une partie, ou les deux, s’engagent à garder confidentielles les informations échangées.Plus dans le glossaire réciproque est la norme.
À quoi servent les pages de clauses ?
Elles expliquent les clauses qui décident de la plupart des litiges (conditions de paiement, indemnisation, plafond de responsabilité et droit applicable) avec un exemple de rédaction et une version en langage clair. Utilisez-les pour comprendre pourquoi une clause existe et ce qui se négocie d’habitude.
À quoi sert la section sur le droit par pays ?
Chaque page rassemble, en langage clair, des règles sourcées sur des sujets comme la signature électronique, les actes sous seing formel (deedUn deed est un document écrit formel qui répond à des règles de signature particulières, souvent utilisé lorsqu’une partie ne reçoit rien en échange.Plus dans le glossaire) et les délais. Nous ne publions une règle que lorsque nous pouvons renvoyer à la page officielle. Choisissez le pays indiqué dans votre clause de droit applicable, pas seulement celui où vous vivez.