IP clauses in employment and vendor contracts

Updated: 2026-08-28

Writes the clauses that make what your staff, freelancers and agencies create for you actually belong to you.

The statutory default does not always favour whoever paid, and an author's moral rights cannot be assigned at all. Well-drafted clauses are the cheapest item in this catalogue and the one that decides the most when a dispute or a funding round arrives.

• Who may perform this: Corporate lawyer
• Timeline: Typically 1–2 weeks
• How pricing works: Quoted by the number of templates to draft or review.

Deliverables

• A standard clause set for employment, contractor and purchase-order contracts
• A review of the contracts in use, pointing out the gaps

What you provide

• The contract templates your company currently uses
• A description of the creative output each team produces

Contents

• Moral rights and economic rights
• The author and the copyright owner are not always the same person
• Startups and IP — the cheapest steps, most often skipped