RE: Contract Agreements

At 02:45 AM 1/8/00 -0500, Webmaster at WebWham wrote:
>http://www.ivanhoffman.com
>
>A regular in this list, and one who will tell you (and I concur from
>experience), that standard pieces from various sources thrown together make
>for nice fire starting material. If you care about your biz, and your
>wealth, you'll use a customized one tailored to your particular clients and
>business needs.

I agree with Gil.  I'm not a client of Ivan's, but I am the client of an 
attorney specializing in copyright law and international law who has spent 
a lot of time on the net.  My attorney's services have cost us only in 
money; the peace of mind and protection his contract has given us is more 
than worth it.

If you're wondering, "What kinds of things should go in a contract?" then 
by all means read Ivan's site.  As far as "the basics" go, when I first 
consulted with my attorney, he asked me to draw up a list of what was 
important to me.  These included (as memory serves) that I wanted a 
guarantee from the client that whatever material they gave me was 
copyrighted by them (or that they had permission to use it), how and when I 
wanted to be paid, various promises dealing with how we would make sure the 
customer was satisfied with our work, and that any arbitration would be 
done in our home county.  To this my attorney added a whole host of things 
... stuff I wouldn't've thought of.  Over the years we've refined it here 
and there--adding or modifying articles based on past customer experiences.

Obviously I'm not an attorney, so please only take my advice as a starting 
point, not as the final answer. HTH!

Rachel hartman
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