License Agreement

Licensing IP out or bringing it in? Get the terms right before you sign.

Flat fee, scoped to your deal

Your $150 consultation fee is credited toward any services you decide to purchase.

A license is a list of rights you are giving away, in writing

Every licensing deal is really one question: who can do what with whose IP, and who gets paid for it.

Get the answer in clear terms and a license is one of the best ways to make money from a game. Get it wrong and you can sign away exclusivity, territories, or ownership you never meant to give up, sometimes permanently.

Both directions of the deal

We handle licenses in both directions.

When you are licensing your IP out, to a publisher, a merchandise partner, a foreign-language edition, we make sure the scope is bounded, the royalties are real, and the rights come back to you when the deal ends.

When you are bringing IP in, music, art, middleware, an engine, we make sure you actually have the rights you think you are paying for.

How we handle it

Send us the deal, whether it is a contract you need drafted or one someone handed you to sign.

We scope it, quote a flat fee up front, and either draft it to protect you or review it and tell you in plain English what to fix before you sign.

What's included

  • Drafting or review of your license agreement
  • Clear terms on scope, territory, exclusivity, and duration
  • Royalty and payment structures that hold up
  • Ownership and reversion terms so rights come back to you
  • A plain-English walkthrough of what you are agreeing to

Who this is for

  • Developers licensing their game, characters, or art to someone else
  • Studios bringing in third-party IP, music, or middleware
  • Anyone handed a license to sign and unsure what it really says

Related reading

More on this from the Legal Moves blog.

Common questions

What is the difference between licensing and assignment?

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An assignment transfers ownership outright. A license lets someone use your IP under conditions you set, while you keep ownership. Most developers want to license, not assign, and the wrong choice in a contract can hand away rights you meant to keep. We make sure the document matches what you actually intend.

Someone sent me a license to sign. Can you just review it?

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Yes. We review the agreement, explain what each term means in plain language, flag the clauses that work against you, and tell you what to push back on before you sign.

What does a license agreement cost?

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It is a flat fee scoped to the deal, because a simple asset license and a complex multi-territory distribution deal are very different jobs. Tell us what you are working on and we will quote it before any work begins.

What terms matter most in a license?

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Scope, exclusivity, territory, duration, payment, and what happens when the deal ends. The reversion and termination terms are the ones developers most often overlook, and the ones that decide whether your rights ever come back to you.

Ready to get started?

Schedule a consultation and we'll map out exactly what your license agreement needs and what it costs, with no obligation.

Your $150 consultation fee is credited toward any services you decide to purchase.

Contact us to get started