Saw a weird clause in a contract at a client's office in Austin

Was helping a friend review a vendor agreement at his small marketing firm. The contract had a line about 'perpetual, irrevocable license to all derivative works' buried on page 8. It was for a simple logo design project. That's way too broad for what they were paying, which was only $2,500. It basically gave the other company rights to anything they made from the logo forever, no take-backs. Anyone else run into this kind of overreach lately?

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the_patricia6mo ago

Yeah, I used to skim those too until a clause like that bit me... john_cooper gets it.

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john_cooper6mo ago

My own contracts are so bad I'd probably miss that clause too.

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the_tara6mo ago

What gets me is how they hide these clauses in plain sight. They'll bury a huge penalty in the middle of a boring section about insurance or force majeure. I once saw a contract that slipped in a non-compete by calling it a "market protection agreement" in the definitions. You almost need to read it backwards.

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