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Contracts for agencies and studios.
Design, development, marketing: every engagement starts with a contract, and most of them are the same contract with different numbers. Describe the engagement in a sentence, read the contract in plain language, and send it to a client who never pays and never makes an account.
For agencies
What an agency can do here.
Every engagement from one sentence
A services agreement, a statement of work under it, a subcontractor agreement for the freelancer you bring in: describe each one and read the contract it becomes. The services shelf holds the kinds an agency sends.
The services shelfWho owns what was made
An engagement produces work, and the contract says who owns it and who may use it. The intellectual-property shelf holds the kinds that answer that question, in plain words.
The intellectual-property shelfRedlines on the same contract
Change one clause, say why in a line, and the client answers on the same contract rather than in another attachment. Each change is marked and each acceptance is recorded.
RedlinesThe client never pays and never makes an account
They get a link, open the contract in a browser and put their name to it. No account, no fee, nothing to install.
The other sideA client abroad
Name the legal system the contract is written under. More than one is allowed, so the agreement and the forum can name different places.
Every governing lawStart with a template
Kinds from the catalogue that fit this desk.
- Design services agreementFor design work: The brief, the rounds, the source files, and who owns the marks and drawings at the end.
- Development services agreementFor software being built to order: scope, acceptance, source code, open-source components, and what happens after launch.
- Marketing services agreementFor marketing work: the services, the fee, who holds the ad accounts, and who is responsible for what goes out.
- Statement of workThe short contract that names one job under a services agreement: what is being made, by when, and for how much.
- Subcontractor agreementWhen a supplier hires another supplier to do part of the job, and the terms above have to reach all the way down.
- IP assignment agreementOwnership of something made moves from one party to another: what is assigned, from when, and what the assignor promises.
Governing law this desk often names: England and Wales, New York, Netherlands — or several at once. Every governing law.
The next engagement starts with one sentence.
The other side never pays and never makes an account.
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