License Agreement

What can you expect from Affordable Advocate?

You commission a web designer but you don’t part on good terms. What next? Can you feel free to use the logo and everything he created for you? Or on the other hand, have you been commissioned for a series of illustrations and want to make sure you don’t have to deal with unpaid invoices? We’ll draw up a licensing agreement for you so that you avoid all risks when granting and using copyright.

Among the most commonly made mistakes are the royalty, the type of license (exclusive vs. non-exclusive) or the penalties. As a result, the author or recipient of the work may lose a significant amount of money or even all rights to the work.

The attorney who will draft or review the license agreement for you has drafted hundreds of contracts and agreements. Yet, he or she understands that each agreement requires an individualized approach because each client also needs to treat different rights and obligations.

An accessible attorney works with the utmost attention to quality and prompt preparation of the necessary documents. You can handle all communication with him online or over the phone, and you will have a final agreement in as little as 2 days.

You will appreciate this service if

• You’re a freelancer (e.g. copywriter, designer, graphic designer, web designer, translator) who provides services to clients and you want to have everything contractually backed up.
• You want to effectively protect your copyrights because you realize their true value.
• You are unsure how to license the work to the client so that everything goes smoothly legally.
• You have commissioned a copyright work and now want to properly handle the license to use it. For example, you are developing a website or a mobile app and you need to have a proper license for everything so that the user can use and modify everything without restriction.
• You have had a computer program developed (either by a freelancer or an employee) and need to best address any risks associated with the software malfunctioning or leaking important data.
• You are concerned about freely available model contracts that are full of errors and outdated information.

We have drafted the licence agreement for a wide range of clients

For the licenses we wrote or reviewed for authors, artists, or software developers, it was clear that they differed in details that carry a lot of weight.

For example:

• The owner of a trademark that he wanted to lease to another trader. The license in this case affected the ability to dispose of the trademark and guaranteed payment of the appropriate fee.
• Author of a computer program that provided a mobile application for development. We set up the license agreement to define exactly what was included in the app and what the programmer could continue to use exclusively on his own.
• Author whose illustrations were to appear in the workbooks. In her case, it was important to determine what would happen in future editions of the workbooks or other uses of the illustrations.
• A translator of Japanese manga that he wanted to distribute online. In this case, we thus dealt with a publisher license agreement that included a fairly complex royalty payment model.
• An entrepreneur who was contracting with the manager of his franchises and needed to handle the full service design licenses as well. The contract was not just a pure licensing agreement, but covered other aspects of the business including treatment of the franchise operating fee.
• A theatre services company for whom we addressed the issue of licensing the entire turnkey project so that all members of the original company would have secured rights to future use of their common work.

How will the contract be processed and what will you get as part of the service?

Additional services that will come in handy

At The Affordable Lawyer, we will prepare not only the license agreement for you, but also the work agreement itself. In addition, we can also help you with advice and trademark registration.