As some of you may already know, I manage a website and app for a small music festival. It runs on a shoestring budget and helps to support the village I grew up in, so I volunteer my time and resources. Part of this is creating the site and things like posters using resources that I've made.

Recently we had an issue where someone created a logo for us, and after we'd used it for a few years, they claimed it back. It turned out that when they created the logo, neither side thought to draw up any sort of agreement on how it could be used. I want to put something in place that makes it clear that anything that I create for the festival can be used by them forever, but without restricting myself from using it.

My main concern is for the website and app, so that I can use the same structure in the future.

I'm not concerned about the fine print, like saying that I can use this specific text layout or whatever, I just want to stop either side from restricting the other in the event of a major falling out, with the exception of things that are exclusive to one side or the other, like the name of the festival.

What would be the best licence for that please? Thanks in advance :)

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[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is all very helpful, thank you :)

Any Creative Commons license will require the festival to list a credit for your work. That might not be an issue for the app or website, but the festival might not be interested in listing “poster by Tippon, used under a Creative Commons 4.0 license” every time they use something you created on social media, in print, or advertising.

I didn't know about that. I thought they might have to credit me, but didn't know that it would need to be on the work itself. I definitely don't want that. I hadn't thought about third parties either. I doubt that anyone would try to rip us off, but I don't want to leave that door open either, just in case.

I'm not overly concerned with future clients, as I'm medically retired and just doing this as a learning exercise. There's a tiny chance that I might get future work from this, but I'm more concerned with not cutting myself off from using the website / app template if I was to fall out with the festival at some point. As you say though, I don't want to leave either me or the festival open to having the content stolen either.

I've just realised that I need to double check how to handle third party images too. We have some local businesses who support the festival, so we use their logos as links on the site. If I include them in the repository, I don't want to accidentally give them away.

I've got some reading to do! :D