You delivered the work. Who gets to use it?
Commissions made by several hands, outside collaborators and clients who reuse what you made. Here you see it in the order you work in: who made the work, what gets filed, what each client signs and what you do when a copy shows up.
- stages of the commission covered
- 6
- of protection for a work
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- of processing for a DNDA filing
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Your commission goes through six moments. Each one has something to sign or file.
A creative does not wake up thinking about contracts: they think about the delivery. Here each matter shows up at the point in the commission where you have to settle it.
Stage 1 of 6
Whose work is it?
A commission passes through several hands: someone designs, someone edits, someone records, and sometimes an outside studio joins. Before anything is delivered we put in writing who did what, with which material and under which agreement.
The file for your work
We gather the supporting material —files, versions and dates— and file the registration with Colombia’s National Copyright Office (DNDA), with a lawyer reviewing the file before anything is submitted.
[ PENDING — legal text to be drafted ]
What your client signs
Assignments, usage licences and agreements with collaborators, drafted case by case: what is delivered, for which media, for how long and what happens to the versions that stayed out of the delivery.
[ PENDING — legal text to be drafted ]
When the work goes public
Usage terms for the site or the store where you publish, how authors are credited, and what happens with the personal data of whoever buys from you, hires you or subscribes.
The studio’s name
Your name, your pen name or a project’s: we check whether the sign is free in WIPO’s global database and prepare the application before Colombia’s Superintendence of Industry and Commerce.
When someone copies you
We fix the evidence with its date, prepare the notice to the channel where the copy is published and follow up until it answers. If the resemblance is with a sign, the route is a different one and we prepare that too.
Where a studio usually starts
These are the filings studios and creatives ask us for most: keeping your works in your name, and putting in writing what you hand over and what you keep.
Pick the service you need.
By work, by commission or by trademark
Most people start with a single filing. Studios with recurring clients prefer to close the commission’s contract before the delivery, not after.
- By work
Filing with the DNDA
We gather the material behind the work —files, versions and dates—, assemble the file and submit it to Colombia’s National Copyright Office.
- Music, photography, design and literary work
- Attorney review before anything is submitted
- Follow-up until the office answers
Quoted by scope: the fee depends on how many works are included and on the material that has to be gathered. There is no fixed rate: it comes out of the list of works.
- RecommendedBy trademark
Your name before the SIC
The studio’s or the project’s name, checked against WIPO’s global database and filed with Colombia’s Superintendence of Industry and Commerce with attorney review.
- Viability diagnosis
- $50.000Unverified
- Trademark registration with the SIC
- $400.000
TuAvocado professional fees in Colombian pesos. The SIC’s official fees are assessed separately depending on the classes and the scale, and are not included.
- By commission
The contract for every project
Support for the studio project by project: the contract with the client, the agreements with whoever collaborates and a record of what was delivered in each one.
- Assignment contract for the commission
- Agreements with collaborators and outside studios
- Confidentiality agreements
- Review of the usage terms of your site
Quoted by scope: it depends on how many projects and how many collaborators are covered. There is no fixed rate: it comes out of the volume of projects.
[ PENDING — legal text to be drafted ]
Preliminary figures: the principal attorney reviews them before they are published as final.
About to deliver a commission?
Let us go over the contract and the filing before the delivery, not after the work is already out there.