Licensing lets you make money from creative works while keeping ownership and control. As the copyright owner, you hold exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, and create derivative works. A license grants someone permission to exercise some of those rights on terms you set. The value is in how you divide and limit the grant. We help you carve up that bundle of rights deliberately, so each deal earns what it should without giving away more than you intend.
License Agreement Fundamentals
Every license, simple or elaborate, has to answer the same core questions. Which exclusive rights does the licensee get, and how may they use them? Where does the license apply, how long does it last, and is it exclusive? How are you paid, whether through a flat fee, ongoing royalties, or an arrangement with advances, minimums, and performance incentives? We pin these terms down clearly, then add the delivery, quality, attribution, warranty, and termination provisions that keep the deal workable over its full life.
Publishing and Content Deals
Publishing runs on its own customs, and they differ across books, periodicals, academic, and digital contexts. We negotiate advances against royalties, format-specific royalty rates, the split between rights you keep and rights the publisher gets, reversion clauses that return rights when a work goes out of print, subsidiary rights for adaptations and translations, and audit rights so you can verify the accounting. Knowing how publishing economics actually work lets us push for terms that serve you while staying viable for the other side.
Software Licensing
Software licensing sits where copyright meets technology, and it is where our engineering background pays off. We draft end-user agreements, enterprise licenses covering deployment across an organization, and development agreements that nail down who owns the code, what background technology a developer contributes, and your ongoing rights to use, modify, and maintain the result. We also help you manage open source obligations, which impose real conditions on use and distribution that are easy to violate without noticing.
Digital Distribution and Media
Digital distribution created licensing models that the old physical world never had. Streaming services license content very differently from disc sales. Aggregators bundle rights from many sources. User-generated platforms need licenses from their users, and social media raises fresh questions about the scope of what users grant. Entertainment adds its own layers, separating composition rights from sound recording rights and requiring synchronization and public performance licenses. We license your work for these channels with the right rights, cleared the right way.
Managing Licenses Over Time
A license is a relationship, and it needs tending. Royalties have to be tracked and verified, and audit rights are worth exercising periodically rather than trusting the statements that arrive. Compliance with use restrictions has to be monitored, scope disputes resolved when a use falls near the edge of the grant, and amendments handled as your business shifts. We help you decide whether to renew, how to enforce restrictions, and how to unwind a license cleanly when the relationship ends.