STEP $1-$ Read the facts.

Imagine you are an entrepreneur starting a new business. The name of your business is "ABC Company LLC$"$ and is located in Los Angeles, CA$.$

The business needs to hire someone to design a logo$.$ Through a mutual connection, you meet Joseph Taylor. He is a designer who has experience designing logos for businesses.

You start having discussions about potentially hiring him.

One thing that you have made clear to Joseph already is that it's really important that the business owns the logo after it has been paid for. To put it another way, you're not interested in licensing $*$ the logo; you want to own it outright.

Generally speaking, if you only have a license to the logo$,$ that means that the Designer will own the logo and you'll just be paying to use it$.$

STEP $2-$ Research a good template.

It is very rare for a lawyer to draft a contract from scratch. It's highly inefficient for both the lawyer and his$/$her client.

So the first step to drafting any contract is to look for a template or precedent that provides the best starting point.

Based on the facts above, please find a contract template that you think will serve as a good starting point for this contract. The right Google search should bring up several options.

Here are a few tips:

This type of contract can have all different sorts of names: independent contractor agreement, designer agreement, services agreement, etc.

Remember that it's super important that the contract covers that you will own the logo after it has been paid for. This is often discussed in a section called "Intellectual Promew"