Credit & attribution
Why we ask for a credit
Because the work pays for itself twice — once when you pay for it, and once when somebody sees it and asks who made it. That second half is priced into our rates, which is part of why they are what they are. If you’d rather we weren’t named, that’s completely fine. It’s just priced separately, so it’s never a negotiation in the middle of a project.
Your options
| Option | What you get | What it costs us | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | A credit line where the work appears, and we keep the right to show it in our portfolio. | Nothing. | Included |
| No credit / white label | No obligation to credit us, and we are not named publicly in connection with the work. | The attribution that makes this work pay for itself twice. | +50% of project fee |
| Portfolio embargo | We will not display the work anywhere for 12 months from delivery. Indefinite quoted on request. | Our best marketing asset, for a year. | +75% of project fee |
| Site footer removal | The “Built by” credit comes off the site. | An ongoing referral channel. | $600/year or $1,800 perpetual |
| Full buyout | All rights assigned, raw files included, perpetual and all-channel. | Future licensing income and the portfolio piece, permanently. | 3× project fee, minimum $5,000 |
Removing or altering a credit line, a watermark, or the information embedded in a delivered file is not covered by any of these options.If you want our name off, the options above are how — and they’re genuinely easy to arrange.
The questions people actually ask
Do we have to credit you on every post?
No. One credit where the work lives — a caption, a footer, an end card — is all we're asking for. We're not going to audit your feed.
Can we say we made it in-house?
That's the no-credit option. It's a normal thing to need and there's nothing awkward about asking — it's just priced, because the attribution is half of what we get out of the job.
Our client doesn't want it made public.
That's the portfolio embargo. It's priced above no-credit deliberately: not being named costs us something, but not being able to show the work at all costs us more.
We already paid for it. Isn't it ours?
The finished work is licensed to you in full, and that license is in your agreement. This page is about something narrower — whether we can say we made it.
Can we decide later?
Yes. Ask us to take something down and we will. Adding an option after signing is quoted the same way it would have been at the start — the price doesn't go up for asking late.
Whichever option applies to you is written into your agreement, so this page and your contract always say the same thing. Looking to license work we already made instead? That’s on the rights page. Anything else, ask before you sign — info@krisbarnes.org.