Regler og beskyttelse
Usage rights, in plain terms
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What a brand may do with the work, for how long, and when the clock starts.
The clock starts at completion, not at signature
A licence measured in months is counted from the day the collaboration completes. A brand that sits on the files for two months has not used up two months of it. An extension is the one exception, and it counts from the day the previous licence ends.
Usage rights say how long a brand may keep using what you made for them. They are set by the creator, printed on the contract, and they are the term creators most often leave on its default without meaning to.
The two shapes
Perpetual. No end date. The brand may keep using the work indefinitely. This is what a contract carries when nothing else is set.
A fixed period. Three, six, twelve, twenty-four months, or any number you choose. After it expires the brand should stop using the work commercially.
Perpetual is worth more than a fixed period, and pricing it the same is the most common way creators undercharge without noticing.
Setting them
Two places, and the second wins.
On a package, in Packages. Every contract created from that package starts with the licence you set there.
On the contract itself, any time before you request completion. Open the collaboration and edit the usage rights.
Once you request completion the licence is locked. That is deliberate: it is the point where the brand is being asked to approve and pay, and terms should not be able to move underneath them.
What happens at expiry
Two warnings, and they arrive at different times because they are for different people. The brand is emailed roughly a month out, so the campaign owner can plan. You get a task on your Home screen 14 days before, because that is a selling window rather than a diary note.
Neither is an enforcement. Nothing stops working and no file is withdrawn.
Selling an extension
If the brand wants to carry on, the route is an extension, and you offer it the same way you offer anything else: as a proposal.
Open the collaboration and press extend. You say how many months, and the rest is prefilled for you: one line describing what is being extended, the usage months, and an expiry date defaulted to the day the licence runs out. You set the price, because nobody else should. Send it, the brand accepts and pays it like any other offer, and a contract is created from your line.
The new months are added to the end, not to today. An extension counts from the day the old licence expires, so renewing early does not cost the brand the days they already paid for, and it does not leave a gap in the middle if you renew late.
The original contract is left alone. The extension is its own contract, linked to the one it renews, so there is one record of what was agreed and when.
You can hold one live extension offer per contract. A draft counts, so if the Home task disappears, check Proposals: you have probably started one already.
What the brand sees
The licence is printed on the contract before the brand funds anything, and the brand cannot change it. If they ask for longer or wider terms, that is a price conversation, and it has to happen before you request completion, while the licence is still yours to edit.
What CollabNordic does and does not do
We record the terms, print them on the contract, and remind both sides before expiry.
We do not police what a brand does with the files afterwards. If a licence has expired and the work is still running, that is a matter between the two parties and, if it comes to it, their lawyers. Reporting it to us is worth doing when it suggests a Terms of Service problem rather than a disagreement.