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HI Adam Can’t help with a copyright agreement I’m afraid - doesn’t your illustrator have something as this kind of thing must come up all the time in his/her line of work. But one important point to ponder is that your illustrator may well want to use the stuff they’ve created for you as part of their portfolio and on websites and other social media to promote their business. This is reasonable, and any kind of copyright agreement you come to must allow for this. Another thing is that your illustrator might, in all innocence, create something similar for another client and this might be seen as a breach of copyright in your illustrations. I’m not sure that, if I were an illustrator, (I’m not, I design and make interactive exhibits) I’d be that happy about giving away my copyright in any of my work. I think I’d be happier granting my clients an exclusive licence to use the work for agreed purposes to protect me from any claims that I’d breached copyright by producing something similar for another job. There’s also the point that if I give my copyright to you then if you want changes made to any of my work you are free to get them made by whoever you like, but if I own the copyright you’ve got to come back to me. I know I’m in a different game, but I don’t give away (or sell) copyright in any of my designs or finished exhibits, because I need to be free to use and adapt any of my work for future jobs. Hope this helps Richard. Richard Ellam L M Interactive Science Shows and Hands-On Stuff [log in to unmask] www.lminteractive.co.uk > On 22 Aug 2018, at 12:12, Adam Murray <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hello GEM, > > We are paying a illustrator to design some drawings for our KS2 resource. We have asked for copyright of the images so we can use them for social media and publicity etc (which he is fine with) and so they are not used anywhere else. > > I was wondering if anyone had any examples of a copyright agreement including usage requirements so i could get an idea of the paperwork we both need to sign. > > Thanks! > > Adam Murray > Learning Officer > > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + > > GEM list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] > > Anyone can join for free at any time by sending this message to [log in to unmask]: > > Join GEM Firstname Secondname > > Include only the text above, without email signature etc. The title of the email doesn’t matter. Send it to [log in to unmask] > > > If you are going on holiday or have an out of office message for some other reason, you can send this message: > > Set GEM nomail > > When you get back: > > Set GEM mail > > You don’t 'miss' any messages by doing this as they are all available via main GEM list web page as above. > > > Finally, if you need to change your email address, but stay subscribed to GEM, just send your new email address like this: > > CHANGE GEM [log in to unmask] > > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + GEM list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] Anyone can join for free at any time by sending this message to [log in to unmask]: Join GEM Firstname Secondname Include only the text above, without email signature etc. The title of the email doesn’t matter. Send it to [log in to unmask] If you are going on holiday or have an out of office message for some other reason, you can send this message: Set GEM nomail When you get back: Set GEM mail You don’t 'miss' any messages by doing this as they are all available via main GEM list web page as above. Finally, if you need to change your email address, but stay subscribed to GEM, just send your new email address like this: CHANGE GEM [log in to unmask] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +