Kill Fees and Clients
Posted 1st January 2012 at 07:16 PM by pbarnhart
Do you have clients? If you do, you no doubt do proposals, mockups, designs, drafts, etc.
I have a simple statement on my client's contract that if I don't get the dev work, the design can be licensed in perpetuity for XX$ but that the license is not exclusive. ONCE I had a client steal a design and give it to another design firm. I asked them for the license fee and took them to small claims court when they ignored me. Won the fee plus expenses.
I almost always have kill fees in my work - inspired from my days as a freelance writer. And about 10% of the time, I collect a kill fee instead of a contract. I honestly believe the kill fee clause drives more work, since the thought of paying it is absolutely anathema to a lot of small biz owners.
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I have a simple statement on my client's contract that if I don't get the dev work, the design can be licensed in perpetuity for XX$ but that the license is not exclusive. ONCE I had a client steal a design and give it to another design firm. I asked them for the license fee and took them to small claims court when they ignored me. Won the fee plus expenses.
I almost always have kill fees in my work - inspired from my days as a freelance writer. And about 10% of the time, I collect a kill fee instead of a contract. I honestly believe the kill fee clause drives more work, since the thought of paying it is absolutely anathema to a lot of small biz owners.
Inspired by this thread.
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