My agency is nearly 10 years old too and one of the first things I did was get our lawyers to help draft our standard terms. Best thing I ever did.
In our terms we also keep intellectual copyright of HTML/CSS/PHP/etc code and give the client a licence to use it forever on the specific website we built for them.
Jouni, it’s important to do this since otherwise you might get some clients complaining if you re-use code elements, which of course always happens on web + software projects.
We also have a term to say we hold the right to use a screenshot of the site in marketing materials (i.e. our site).
simon r jones
Refreshing article on a very dry subject Andy.
My agency is nearly 10 years old too and one of the first things I did was get our lawyers to help draft our standard terms. Best thing I ever did.
In our terms we also keep intellectual copyright of HTML/CSS/PHP/etc code and give the client a licence to use it forever on the specific website we built for them.
Jouni, it’s important to do this since otherwise you might get some clients complaining if you re-use code elements, which of course always happens on web + software projects.
We also have a term to say we hold the right to use a screenshot of the site in marketing materials (i.e. our site).