June 25, 2014
If you do business on a handshake, don’t be surprised if the price is an arm and a leg. You’re starting your new company on a shoestring budget. You need a hot logo that really speaks to your brand. One of your closest friends is a graphic designer, and she offers to create it for you. You’re ecstatic. Six months later, your friend is preaching to you about the “sanctity” of her design. She hands you a written agreement that gives all the rights to her–which she expects you to sign. She sends you a bill for thousands of dollars. She then tells you that you can’t make any changes to the design without her permission and that you don’t own the logo. Still ecstatic? For Evermore Pet Food, based in Brooklyn, N.Y., ecstasy quickly turned to exasperation when the company hired a graphic designer without a written contract. Evermore suffered the kind of business nightmare many entrepreneurs go through when they choose to be casual about their business arrangements. That’s why “work for hire”…
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