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Text is from the book:
AGD Vergütungstarifvertrag Design / AGD Collective Agreement on Fees for Design Services
in English and German.
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How much do I charge?
The total fee of a deisgn preformance work consist of
Fee for Design Production (work contract)
Fee for Granting the Rights of Use/License Agreement
Fee for Additional Services
These three aspects of the of the design order is visible in the quotation, the conformation and in the invoice through the partitioning into work contract and license agreemant.
The fee is due upon delivery of work and the client has the right to use the work when the designer has been paid, which includes statutory VAT and taxes, and is to be paid without deductions.
This covers the production of graphic work and the development in communications design works.
The fee is calcalated by the number of hours used by the designer multiplied by the hour rate ($100 per hour minimum).
Since the designs represent the original intellectual creation of the author, the designer grants the rights of use (licenses) to the client to the extent clearly defined in advance.
These two aspects of the of the design order is visible in the quotation, the conformation and in the invoice through the partitioning into work contract and license agreemant.
Utilisation Factors
Coresponding numbers represent the value to be added to the hour rate when calculating the Fee for Rights of Use.
The total of all uses added together are multipled by the hourly rate.
Type of Use
non-exclusive 0.2
The principal may use the design; the designer may also grant rights of use to other persons.
exclusive 1.0
The principal has been granted exclusive rights of use.
Area of Use
regional 0.1
national 0.3
pan-Europan or North America 1.0
worldwide 2.5
Duration of Use
1 year 0.1
5 years 0.3
10 years 0.5
unlimited 1.5
Scope of Use
The agreement on the scope of use is based on, for example, the circulation or print-run, the size of the target group and other, similar criteria. The question of whether a design is to be used for a specific project only (e.g. a website) or else for several media is also important.
small 0.1
average 0.3
big 0.7
extensive 1.0
Additional Services
Additional Services performed by the designer in order to execute the assignment according to the client's wishes will be charged in accordance to the time spent.
This includes analyses, color matching, construction management, consultancy, courier services, FTP/Internet delivery, design model, editing, final artork, functional/acceptance test, HTML-conversion, manuscripts study, market analysis, pattern/design repeat production, picture processing, picture research, travel/meeting time, presentation expenditure, printing supervision, print proofs, production management, programming, reproduction, research, retouching, sample production, techinal design service, and work drawing.
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