Main contract
Creative services agreement
The core document for any creative engagement. Scope, payment, IP transfer, revision limits, approval timeline, termination.
Designers, photographers, videographers, copywriters — IP transfer, usage rights, and revision limits that protect creative work. Free.
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What makes creative contracts different
A graphic designer's contract isn't a generic services agreement with a logo on it. The core legal questions — who owns the work, when does ownership transfer, what can the client do with it — are specific to creative engagements.
IP transfer triggered by full payment. Revision limits with change-order triggers. Model release and usage-rights language. Portfolio display rights. These are the clauses generic templates omit.
One-time projects, recurring retainers, licensing deals, event-day engagements, content libraries. Each structure needs different payment, IP, and termination terms.
BizDraft asks about your discipline, the deliverable, payment structure, revision expectations, and whether you want to retain portfolio rights — then writes the agreement around those answers.
The freelance creative stack
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Main contract
The core document for any creative engagement. Scope, payment, IP transfer, revision limits, approval timeline, termination.
Scope document
Project-specific deliverables, milestones, and timeline. Attached to the master agreement — swap it per engagement.
Recurring work
Monthly fee, included hours, rollover policy, cancellation notice. For ongoing design, content, or production relationships.
Content & image licensing
Grant specific usage rights — exclusive or non-exclusive, platform, duration, territory — without full IP transfer.
Confidentiality
When a client shares unreleased campaigns, brand strategy, or product details before you sign the main contract.
Model & property
Written consent to use a person's likeness in commercial work. Required for photography and videography that will be published.
Common deal types
One-time project
A logo package, a photo shoot, a brand video. Creative services agreement + SOW. IP transfers on final payment.
Ongoing content
Regular social content, monthly design work, recurring video. Retainer agreement with hour bank, rollover, and 30-day cancellation.
Usage only
Selling or licensing photos, illustrations, or video assets you already own. License agreement specifying platform, duration, and territory.
Event coverage
Wedding, corporate event, product launch. Date-locked agreement with cancellation fee, overtime rate, and delivery timeline.
Agency sub-hire
Working under a creative agency. Subcontractor agreement with flow-down IP terms, confidentiality, and non-solicitation.
Collaboration
Joint creative work — co-owned IP or split deliverables. Collaboration agreement with credit, revenue split, and dispute resolution.
The freelance creative risk map
Client uses the deliverable before paying. Fix: IP transfer clause triggered by receipt of full payment — ownership doesn't pass until payment clears.
"Can you just tweak this one more time?" Fix: revision limit with a defined change-order process and additional-hour rate for anything beyond it.
Client goes quiet and the project stalls. Fix: approval-timeout clause — if no feedback within X days, deliverable is deemed accepted.
Client uses work for purposes beyond the agreed license. Fix: explicit usage-rights clause defining platform, duration, and territory.
Client cancels at 70% complete. Fix: kill-fee clause that compensates for work done at termination, based on project completion percentage.
Your flow with BizDraft
Designer, photographer, videographer, copywriter — BizDraft shapes the intake to your creative specialty.
Deliverable, payment structure, revision rounds, IP transfer, portfolio rights. Plain English, no legal jargon.
Every clause is readable. Adjust IP terms, revision limits, or payment milestones inline before downloading.
Word or PDF. Send for e-signature before the kickoff call. Done in five minutes.
Free. Tailored to your creative discipline. Yours to keep.
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