When you create, use, remix or sell work you have to think about who own the rights to that work. It all starts with you, the creator. Merely the fact that you brought work into this work gives you copyright. You own your work.
However there are more types of intellectual property (IP) that you can own like design rights, trademarks and patents. Next to IP you as an artist or producer have to deal with other legal affairs like personality rights, quit claims, contracts, price quotes, licensing and so on.
PS: if you are more about sharing instead of owning, check out open source projects like Creative Commons. Even not owning, legally needs to be specified.
Other Tools
Beroep Kunstenaar, ‘business station’ at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Amsterdam. They have great practical downloads as well.
Pictoright, visual copyrights in the Netherlands
Creative Commons – shared copyright
*Legal form of your practice (rechtsvormen via onze collega’s van Cultuur+Ondernemen)
*General Conditions (algemene voorwaarden) download
*Collective Rights, Licensing COMING SOON
*Personality Rights (portretrecht) COMING SOON
*Quitclaim / Model download1 download2 download3
How to create invoices (facturen)
First check these beautiful invoice examples at the Sales section of this site
Invoices need certain items on it. The basics are: date, invoice number, item description, price, amount, vat amount, your name, their name, vat number, chamber of commerce registration and conditions. Here’s the entire list by de Belastingdienst
Recommend platforms and organizations
BNO, Association of Dutch Designers (beroepsvereniging)
Dutch Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel)
