Time to take care of those legal issues that worry us, i will show the model of a confidentiality contract (plus many other things) for freelance designers. The second one is a contract exclusive for author rights or copyright.
You can use them as templates; you can always add or take the clauses you need for each specific case.
Both contracts are in english; i will now comment a bit of each section.
Independent Contractor Non-Solicitation, Confidentiality and Intellectual Property Agreement: this contract is a bit abusive in some aspects, but we have to assume we dont have a extensive clientele, so we have to agree… i have one signed with a big United States toys company.
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR: it clarifies you are an intependent worker (not of the company) and that the company that hires you doesn’t have any responsibilities for the taxes you have to pay.
NON-SOLICITATION: it says you will be good, that you wont take advantage of this situation to hire employees or get clients of the company in your own benefit.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF OWNERSHIP: it simply says you can’t publish any information of the work you are doing.
GRANT OF RIGHTS: we guarantee that all the designs created for the company are of the company and the have unlimited rights over those designs.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES: it says that the work you are doing is original and that you are a legal worker that fulfills your country law about taxes.
CONSIDERATION: it just says that in case the company doesn’t pay you only have right to charge the normal ammount, you don’t have rights to compensations.
INDEMNIFICATION: if by any reason you cost money to the company you will have to pay it.
CHANGE IN STATUS: it means that if by any reason you get to be part of the company, and the company has to pay taxes in your name, you have to refund it to the company.
ASSIGNMENT: you can’t sub-hire others services without the company’s consent.
REASONABLENESS. ENFORCEMENT, AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF: it says you agree with the contract clauses and that you wont take legal actions against them.
ENTIRE AGREEMENT: here we sign, put our information and the representative of the company does the same.
Copyright Assignment. This contract is much more simple, it says you give all the right of the design, that you are the creator of that design, and that you can sell it according to the law.
30 August 2007 at 10:46 AM
TENGO UNOS MESES DE EGRESAR DE LA CARRERA DE DISEÑO GRAFICO ES NECESARIO TENER EXPERIENCIA PARA TRABAJAREN UNA COMPAÑIA YA QUE SOLO MANEJO 2 PROGRAMAS DE DISEÑO
GRACIAS POR SU ATENCION
30 August 2007 at 11:35 AM
Hola Edgar, pues si eso es una pregunta, supongo que dependerá de tu talento y de la compañía.
Si yo tuviera que contratarte lo primero que miraría es tu portafolio, después si tengo tiempo echaría un ojo a tu curriculum.
Más importante que manejar muchos programas es cuales son esos programas y tu nivel de manejo, con Photoshop e illustrator podrías diseñar casi para cualquier medio.
Saludos
PS: no escribas en mayúsculas, es como si estuvieras gritando.
28 January 2008 at 8:19 PM
i have been looking for contracts
10 April 2009 at 1:56 PM
Hola, a propósito de la pregunta del chico, yo pasé una entrevista para una pequeña empresa de diseño web y me pedían conocimientos en flash, fireworks, dreamveaver, q conozca la plataforma ubuntu, The Gimp, pero no sé q ven,me desespera ese programita. La verdad q lo q importa es el resultado y la calidad supongo, pero es bueno saber especializarse en los programas de acuerdo a lo q uno se dedique.
17 September 2009 at 4:10 PM
Hola, muy interensante tu blog te felicito me ha sido de mucha ayuda… aun que no sea mi area del todo, es decir lo mio es el 3D te dejo mi pequeño portafolio en DeviantArt http://tatoozaa.deviantart.com/gallery/
para que mires un poco lo que hago!!!
Me gustaria que me aconsejaras que paginas puedo visitar o ser miembro para que miren mi arte y poder trabajar de freelance…
Quizas puedas reparar los link de los contratos estan rotos…
Desde ya, muchisimas gracias!!!
18 September 2009 at 9:01 AM
hanks a lot Edgardo, I will update the link in a while
I would visit freelanceswitch.com, there is lot of very useful artcicles about freelancing. I think you have a very good level, nice works!