@Will-Terry A few more things occurred to me after I posted the previous comment:
Another area of distinction would be contracts with art & lit agents (also the flow of legal responsibility between all 3 parties of Client, Agent, Illustrator, particularly with client-to-agent/illustrator contracts)
One highly specific question I have always had is regarding contract points/obligations between the illustrator and an ad agency that are not conveyed in contracts between the agency and the end client. If the end client is not aware of something like usage restrictions (duration & region, and consequential costs to any expanded use) and thus do not hold to the illustrator’s agreement with the agency, how is this resolved (or prevented from happening in the first place)?
There are a few other things that might be good to touch on given the breadth of experience levels of the audience:
Contracts often have moral clauses, which has implications upon the illustrator and any displayed illustration work or accompanying text the illustrator posts/prints/etc., particularly in relation to the end-client
There are often restrictions upon what can be shown and when it can be shown, along with restrictions on information shared with others (especially competitors of the client).
Conflict Resolution. State/Country of arbitration, financial & other responsibilities upon the illustrator, etc. With this is also the reality that a contract does not prevent abuse/breaching of that contract by the other party; however, litigation is costly (financially & relationally), even when “you are in the right”. Thus, there are some hard realities that might need to be addressed.
EDIT:
When sharing with a friend about this upcoming webinar, I realized that I overlooked a key part to this webinar's topic: "publishing contracts" - So, I suppose much of what I wrote in these 2 posts is irrelevant to the topic at hand... oops — haha — Well, perhaps there's some nuggets in what I wrote that may be they'll help formulate parts of an outline anyway... Regardless, thank you so much for this topic!
