Client buys logo but wants to buy other concepts too?

Question

I have a client that hired me to design a logo for them. By our contract I supplied them 3 concepts from which they chose one.After all was said and done the client asked to buy the other 2 concepts as well. For example they want to use one of them as an artwork for a T-shirt design.I'm having trouble quoting those 2 other concepts. They came into existence during the work I did for the first logo... so technically I wouldn't need to put extra hours into them.On the other hand I don't want them to go of cheap because then they get 3 designs for the price of 1.Does anybody have experience with this? Also they told me they wanted to use one as a t-shirt design. Is it common to ask a flat fee or are royalties a better approach in this case?

Answer 1

Hi, congrats on getting a logo sold! It's possible I'm misunderstanding how you charged them for the initial logo, but generally, anything that turns up in the creative process, on your way to the approved artwork, already belongs to the client because they paid you for the process of arriving at the chosen logo, as well as the logo itself. They are not separate. Make sense? They paid you to create, you created. They keep the creations, you keep the fee. It is possible you came up with some other unique way to charge them for the project, but you would be shooting yourself in the foot, chasing a few $100's for work that is debatably thiers already. It decreases the likeliness they would want to participate in more work later. Not impossible, but probably not worth it. Hope this helps! ~Joe