File puptcrit/puptcrit.0904, message 91


From: =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu_Ren=C3=A9?= <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:10:04 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] signed contracts


Hi rolande.

Yeah, we had a clause in the contract. They "would have" (yeah right!) given 
me a percentage of the sales of products derived from my designs.

As for copyright, they owned the image of everything. As most of my 
corporate customers have asjed in the past (I only made some corporate works 
for Air Canada, a TV show on YTV, and those honorless ones I just wrote 
about who stiffed me last year, despite their big promises of big money for 
all involved, and reassurances that I would be paid easily within 3 months. 
It's been over a year and a half).  I feel like telling the world about 
them, very publicly,  but as satisfying that might feel, I would be the one 
suffering for it.  Some people would actually think I'm the complaining one, 
liying about it all, to get their money (alas, they are not famous enough to 
be truly rich).
So, I'll just keep on warning my colleagues in person, when the topic 
emerges.
Word gets out no matter what. I've heared a few examples of non-paying 
people we should be weary of in the businesses I work in locally.


For other big contracts, I'll ask for a one-time fee (must be paid before 
the puppets are handed in) to sell them those rights. That way, i won,t have 
to worry about enforcing payments.
That's a very good piece of advice I got from someone here on Puptcrit.  I 
think it was two of them actually, one of which I think was William...


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