Contract Terms
Payment, IP, indemnity and termination clauses read one at a time: what to change before you sign, what to strike, and what you can live with.
- Contract Terms How to Negotiate a Master Service Agreement With No Leverage Client legal will not reopen the MSA for one freelancer. Four changes to ask for anyway, which ones a statute already hands you, and what goes in the SOW.
- Contract Terms Indemnity Clause in a Contract: Reading the Liability Cap An indemnity clause with no cap can put a year of your income on the table over a client mistake. How to read both clauses and what to ask them to change.
- Contract Terms Work Made for Hire: What You Are Handing Over The nine categories in 17 U.S.C. 101, the fallback assignment hiding behind the label, and the two California statutes that turn it into employment.
- Contract Terms Kill Fee and Termination for Convenience: How to Size Them AIGA prices a convenience termination at 25% of the project fee; the Graphic Artists Guild model says 50%. The arithmetic for sizing yours.
- Contract Terms Contract vs Invoice Payment Terms: Which One Wins Your signed agreement and your invoice state different payment terms. Which document controls, why an invoice usually loses that fight, and the clause to add.
- Contract Terms Freelance Contract Terms: Nine Clauses That Get You Paid A map of the signed PDF: the nine clauses that control your money, where each one usually hides, and the single line in each one to read before you sign.