THE CONTRACT

This is the exact contract draft Lis Costanzo uses with her clients, built from 25 years in the fashion industry.
A powerful 30-page document, with attachments for post-production, digital assistance, and other high-risk areas, designed to protect photographers, videographers, graphic designers, and other freelancers from the client traps that quietly destroy profit.
 
Freelancers rarely lose money in one obvious disaster. They lose it in blurred responsibilities, vague approvals, endless revisions, unpaid extras, hidden post-production, discount pressure, technical grey zones, and clients who keep moving the line after the job has already started.
 
This draft turns that chaos into contract language. It names the dangerous points, defines them, and locks them down.
 
It is lawyer-friendly and should be adapted to local law and to the specific project. But the hardest part is already done: the real freelance battlefield has already been translated into terms a lawyer can work with.
 
Even before anyone signs it, it already teaches you where your work has been leaking, where free labor begins, where price should rise, and where responsibility should stop.

This is a survival document for freelancers who are tired of being underpaid, pushed into discounts, and forced to do more than they agreed to do.
 
It helps you charge more accurately, defend your role more clearly, and stop carrying risks that were never supposed to be yours.