Intellectual Property & Licensing Policy

Until a project is paid for in full, all work created during it, including concepts, drafts, presented options and final designs, remains the intellectual property of Auralith Dynamics.

This means drafts and previews shared for review during the project are licensed to you for the purpose of reviewing and approving them, not for public or commercial use. Full rights arrive with full payment.

Once an engagement is paid in full, ownership of the final approved deliverables transfers to you. You receive the rights to use, reproduce and adapt those final deliverables for your business without further payment to the studio.

• Final designs. The approved final deliverables are yours to use across your business.
• Broad usage. Print, digital and internal use are all covered, with no per-use fee.
• Adaptation. You may develop and extend the delivered work as your brand grows.

The transfer covers the final deliverables you approved and paid for. Concepts you did not select, and the studio's underlying working methods, are not part of that transfer.

A project often involves more than one direction, and only some are chosen. Concepts, options and routes that were presented but not selected remain the property of the studio.

This lets us keep exploring ideas freely across projects. An unselected concept is never reused in a way that would copy your final identity, but the studio retains the rights to directions you did not take forward.

Final production-ready files are provided as standard on completion. Editable source and working files are provided where the proposal says so, or can be added by agreement.

Where source files are provided, they are covered by the same usage rights as the final deliverables. The studio's internal templates, scripts and working systems used to produce the work are tools of our practice and are not transferred.

Some deliverables incorporate third-party elements, most commonly fonts, and occasionally licensed stock imagery or icons. These are owned by their respective licensors and are not ours to transfer.

• Fonts. Commercial fonts require your own licence for ongoing use; we tell you which fonts a project uses.
• Licensed imagery. Where stock imagery is used, the applicable licence and any limits are passed on to you.
• Your materials. Anything you supply remains yours, and you confirm you have the right to use it.

We flag any third-party element that needs a licence in your name so you can arrange it. Responsibility for maintaining those third-party licences after handover rests with you.

You retain ownership of everything you supply to us, including text, logos, photography and brand assets. By supplying them you confirm you have the right to use them and to let us incorporate them into the work.

Where a claim arises because material you supplied infringed someone else's rights, that responsibility rests with you, not the studio.

Unless we agree otherwise in writing, the studio may show completed work in its portfolio, on its website and in presentations of its capabilities, and may describe the nature of the work done.

If a project is confidential or under embargo, tell us and we will keep it private until you release it, or permanently if that is what you need. We never publish work that is still unreleased without your agreement.

Transferring usage rights does not entitle either side to misrepresent the work's origin. You may present the delivered identity as your own brand, which is the point of the engagement. What is not permitted is reselling the studio's deliverables or templates to third parties as a design product in their own right.

We may update this policy as the studio's practice develops. The date at the top of the page records when the current version took effect, and the version in force when your proposal is accepted governs your engagement.