IDEAS® General Terms and Conditions
General terms and conditions in principle, in addition to abbreviated order Ts&Cs. n.b. for client guidance only, these do not constitute nor should be considered to form part of a formal contract.
Standard License of Usage
IP 1.1 Final Works. Upon completion of the Services, and expressly conditioned upon full payment of all fees and costs due, Designer grants to Client limited usage rights in the Final Works as set forth below. Final deliverables will be provided in press-ready PDF format only. Any additional uses or extentions of use will require separate agreement and pricing. All other rights, including Copyrights, are reserved by the Designer.
Category of use: Medium of use: Duration of use: Geographic territory: Initial press run: Non-Exclusivity:
For the Duration of Use, Client shall have Non-exclusive rights as set forth above.
Modification: The rights granted to Client are for usage of the Final Works in their original .pdf form only. Client may not crop, distort, manipulate, reconfigure, mimic, animate, edit, extract portions, intentionally alter the colour of the Final Works, or otherwise create derivative works based on the Final Works.
IP 1.2 Trademarks. With the exclusion of fast-track, first-draft, temporary logos or a placeholder logo ideas inserted into online or print media, and upon completion of a Full Brand development Design Services and expressly conditioned upon full payment of all fees and costs due, Designer can assign to Client all of Designer’s rights, including trademark and Copyright, in and to Trademarks created by Designer. Designer shall cooperate with Client and shall execute any additional documents reasonably requested by Client to evidence such assignment. Client shall have sole responsibility for ensuring that Trademarks do not infringe the rights of third parties, and Client shall indemnify, save and hold harmless Designer from any and all damages, liabilities, costs, losses or expenses arising out of any claim, demand, or action by a third party alleging trademark infringement, or arising out of Client’s failure to obtain trademark clearance or permissions, for use of Trademarks.
IP 1.3 Client Content. Client Content, including pre-existing Trademarks, shall remain the sole property of Client or its respective suppliers, and Client or its suppliers shall be the sole owner of all trademarks, trade secrets, patents, Copyrights, and other rights in connection therewith. Client hereby grants to Designer a nonexclusive, nontransferable license to use, reproduce, modify, display and publish the Client Content solely in connection with Designer’s performance of the Services and promotional uses of the Deliverables as authorised in this Agreement.
IP 2.1 Preliminary Works, Working Files/Native Files. Designer retains all proprietary rights, including property ownership, intellectual property rights and Copyrights, in and to all Preliminary Works and Working Files/Native Files, and Client shall return to Designer all Preliminary Works and Working Files in Client’s possession within thirty (30) days of completion of the Services.
IP 2.2 Original Artwork. Designer retains property ownership in any physically tangible original artwork comprising Final Works, including all rights to display or sell such artwork. Client shall return all original artwork to Designer within thirty (30) days of completion of the Services.
IP 2.3 Designer Tools. Designer Tools and all intellectual property rights therein, including Copyrights, shall be owned solely by Designer. Designer hereby grants to Client a nonexclusive, nontransferable (other than the right to sublicense such uses to Client’s publisher, Web hosting or Internet service providers), perpetual, worldwide license to use the Designer Tools solely with the Final Deliverables for the Project. Client may not directly or indirectly, in any form or manner, decompile, reverse engineer, or otherwise disassemble or modify any Designer Tools comprising software, technology or AI agent.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – The copyright in any Works, including, but not limited to, proposals, concepts, design, marketing, literary, dramatic, musical, photographic or artistic work, speculatively or otherwise, during the course of the commission remain the property of Ideas. The quoted printing costs (and any other costs associated with the reproduction of the Works) incorporate a licence fee in respect of the reproduction of the Works as described in the quotation. Any addition to the proposed commission, the assignation of artwork copyright or reproduction of the Works specified in this quotation other than by Ideas is likely to attract an additional fee payable to Ideas. Details will be provided on request. Ideas operates with full transparency with regards to our suppliers and sub- contractors who under our terms and conditions are not at liberty to accept instructions nor orders direct from our clients, so don’t even go there.