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Will there be a custom pdf license to use the customer's logo, are there standard licenses like CC, Apache, or templates?
Are there ready-made licenses for transferring rights to a logo from a designer to a customer like CC, Apache, etc., only commercial ones? Or are there only for free everyone? Is there a common standard set of points that prescribe all sorts of permissions and rights for the customer, specifically for individually designed logos?
That is, not a concluded contract, but a license granted.
In general, 2 points are of interest:
1) Can a freelancer, in principle, grant an arbitrary license to use his work - will it be legally binding?Of course, provided that the customer is familiarized before starting work. With fonts, I often came across such custom ones that the designer came up with and indicated. But spider sense suggests that with logos everything is much more complicated.
2) Is it possible and does it make sense to prescribe any additional. payouts, in case it turns out you accidentally designed a logo for a billion dollar business. (Well, or you did a logo for $20 for a housewife who sells pies at home, because she couldn’t afford to spend anymore, and then it turned into a chain of cafes. (ok, also fabulous, but it’s kind of clear what made me think))
For example, fiverr. Makes designer logos for a standard price of $100. In theory, there should be some difference, a logo is created for an aunt who sells bouquets through Instagram, or for an application that suddenly becomes popular, and your logo will be replicated on all platforms and tens of thousands of devices.
Will there be only moral profit, or are there options?
Simple freelancers have the practice of additional payments or buying extra. licenses for any use beyond the standard? Is it possible to make a pdf-file of a license yourself, with prescribed restrictions, for the maximum number of screens or copies in circulation, etc.? Or in such cases, no one will comply anyway?
Has anyone encountered this? Or is it all nonsense, complex jurisprudence, and only foreign firms and designers practice this? (which have a budget of thousands or tens of thousands of dollars and a folder of official legal documentation is attached to the logo)
I never thought about it before, it always seemed to be implied that the customer, after paying with the logo, can do whatever he wants and as much as he wants.
I remember those stories that the teachers probably told everyone who studied as a designer. Like, "a long time ago, a guy drew a $5 logo on a piece of table, and then that logo turned out to be... Apple!" In the story about Nike, everything ended well, the designer first completed the work for a modest $35, but after many years she received a block of shares and world fame. But there have been many truly embarrassing incidents.
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If someone officially ordered and paid you for the work of creating intellectual property, then he receives exclusive rights to use it . You only have copyright , which in a commercial sense, you can just wipe yourself. They will only protect you from the claims of this customer if you draw a very similar logo to another.
And of course, no client will enter into a contract with you for a design, according to which you can milk him after the delivery of the work. Even if you personally Tatyanych himself.
The difference is whether you're a cool enough designer to have a Facebook line behind you, or you're nobody and can only count on 100 bucks from a flower shop. No matter how cool your customer turned out to be, you are here in the role of a furniture maker who sold Zuckerberg a chair on which he swayed while unwinding.
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