Good advice. Thanks.

While I have not yet discussed the terms with the client, I'm not sure he is going
to offer some form of compensation for the initial development.

I agree that to make it worthwhile, suffient effort needs to be put into marketing
as to justify the cost of development.

Thanks



>Kevin,
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>I assume there will be no direct fee for writing it, apart from the Royalty? "Royalty" usually means you own the copyright... but if you were also paid your normal fee to do the work and are not an employee, you would still own the copyright unless you specifically assign it to the customer. So this seems to be skewed a bit in the customer's favor- presumably because they are contributing lots of IP and might go elsewhere?
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>If you are sacrificing the fee, make sure the customer is going to invest enough in reselling your work to make the risk worthwhile. JMHO.