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Photography and creative license
Based on Photography and creative license, template version 3.
Complete the bracketed details and review every clause before signing.
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- The Business
- [Business legal name][Business mailing address]
- The Client
- [Client legal name][Client mailing address]
1. The work
The Business will do this work for the Client: [describe the shoot or project, its date and place, and the deliverables, such as the number of edited images]. Work not described here is outside this agreement and is added only by a change both parties approve in writing.
2. Parties and service details
The Business's legal name, mailing address and contact details are: [the Business's legal name, mailing address and contact details]. The Client's legal name, mailing address and contact details are: [the Client's legal name, mailing address and contact details]. The itemized services and compensation details are: [itemized services, service dates and the value, rate and method of compensation for each]. The deadline for any service list needed for the Client's payment processing is: [the Client's service-list submission deadline, or no separate processing deadline]. No invoice or processing requirement extends a mandatory payment deadline. Both parties receive a complete copy of this agreement and keep it for any period applicable law requires.
3. Fees and booking
The Client pays the Business [the fee] for the work. A booking payment of [the booking amount] is due on signing and counts toward the fee; it is subject to the cancellation and refund terms below, not automatically nonrefundable. The remaining fee for each itemized service or deliverable is invoiced when it is provided and is due within 15 calendar days of that provision date, even if the invoice is late. Any earlier nonwaivable legal deadline applies. Costs spent on the Client's behalf, such as a studio, props or travel, are billed at cost only if listed here or approved in writing first. No invoice or processing delay extends a mandatory payment deadline.
4. Use of the work
The Business keeps the copyright in all work it creates. When everything invoiced under this agreement is paid, the Client may use the final deliverables for these uses, places and period: [for example, the Client's website and social media, worldwide, with no end date]. Any other use needs the Business's written permission and may carry a fee. The license is non-exclusive unless stated here. The Business may show the work in its portfolio once it is public, unless the Client asks otherwise in writing.
5. The Client's part
The Client gets any permission needed for the places, people, products, logos and materials it provides or chooses, and is responsible for them. Agreed dates assume the Client gives feedback within 5 business days of each request; a delay on the Client's side moves them by the same amount.
6. Rescheduling and cancellation
The Client may move a booked date once without charge with at least 2 business days' notice. If the Client cancels, the Client pays for work performed through cancellation and third-party commitments approved by the Client in writing that the Business cannot reasonably cancel or recover. No additional cancellation fee is due. All payments, including any booking payment, count toward the amount owed; a booking payment is not automatically forfeited. The Business refunds any excess within 14 days, or earlier if law requires. If the Business cancels, the Client pays only for work delivered and accepted, and receives a refund of any excess on the same timetable, without limiting remedies for a breach. This clause does not limit either party's remedies for a breach or reduce any nonwaivable cancellation or refund right.
7. Late payment
If an invoice under this agreement is not paid within 15 days after it is due, the Business may pause the work until it is paid, after telling the Client in writing, and any agreed dates move by the same amount. Pausing does not change what is owed.
8. Confidentiality
Each party keeps the other's non-public information confidential, uses it only for this work, and protects it with reasonable care. This does not cover information that becomes public through no breach of this agreement, was already lawfully known to the receiving party without a confidentiality obligation, was independently developed without using the other's confidential information, or was lawfully received from a third party without a confidentiality obligation. A party may disclose information to the extent the law requires. Protected reports and disclosures are also permitted as described in Protected disclosures.
9. Protected disclosures
Nothing in this agreement prohibits a report or disclosure protected by law, including protected communications about suspected legal violations with a government agency. No prior permission or notice is required for a protected report or disclosure. Under 18 U.S.C. 1833(b), an individual is immune from civil and criminal liability under federal or state trade-secret law for a disclosure made in confidence to a federal, state or local government official, directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, solely to report or investigate a suspected legal violation; or for a disclosure in a complaint or other document filed under seal in a lawsuit or other proceeding. An individual suing an employer for retaliation for reporting a suspected legal violation may disclose the trade secret to their attorney and use it in that proceeding if documents containing it are filed under seal and further disclosure occurs only under court order. For this notice, an employee includes an individual performing work as a contractor or consultant for an employer. This clause does not authorize unlawful or unauthorized access to information, or disclosure of legally privileged information beyond what the law permits.
10. Limits of liability
Neither party is liable for indirect or consequential losses. Each party's total liability under this agreement is limited to the total fees under it. Neither the exclusion nor the liability cap applies to amounts the Client owes under this agreement, fraud, willful misconduct, or liability that applicable law does not permit the parties to exclude or limit.
11. Independent contractor
The Business works as an independent contractor. It decides how to do the work, pays its own taxes, and covers its own tools and expenses unless this agreement bills them to the Client. This description does not override the classification required by applicable law and the actual working arrangements.
12. Everything else
This agreement is these clauses and any change both parties approve in writing. If an invoice issued under it says something different, this agreement governs. It is governed by the laws of the place where the Business is based when the Client signs it. The parties indicate their agreement by signing below. A person signing for an organization confirms that they are authorized to do so. Notice in writing includes email. If a part of it can't be enforced, the rest still applies. Electronic signatures and copies have the same effect as originals. Headings and the In short notes are reading aids only; the full text governs.
For the Business
Signature: __________________________
Name and title: _____________________
Date: ______________________________
For the Client
Signature: __________________________
Name and title: _____________________
Date: ______________________________
Unsigned draft prepared with BillGrid's free contract templates. Review and adapt the full agreement before either party signs. Template information only. Not legal advice or a substitute for an attorney's advice.