should I sign this agreement?
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Logo/identity work can NOT be work for hire – below are the types of work that can be considered for a work for hire agreement.
(1) a translation, (2) a contribution to a motion picture or other audiovisual work, (3) a contribution to a collective work, (4) as an atlas, (5) as a compilation, (6) as an instructional text, (7) as a test, (8) as answer material for a test, (9) or a supplementary work.
If you want to sign over to them all rights to your work (including ideas, sketches, things you designed that they didnt use, etc.) then you should have a document that is signed by both parties doing so – in which case the kind of vague, cover-all language above would do something to that effect.
But I don't like it. there are clauses that are not reasonable. Like only being able to show the work you made for self-PR purposes, with permission from the client for up to one year (and not after). That seems a little excessive even without knowing the exact nature of the work.
In any event, if you choose to transfer rights to your work over to the client (which I would suggest doing only with the final/end product/design) then I would suggest you GET PAID for the rights. Its rather standard practice in this case to have a fee for the work and a separate fee for the selling and transfer of rights to the work unto the client.
- No, this is not true.duckofrubber
- which part isn't true?letters2