"Hello Bruce, Thanks for this article. Its been very helpful. I am an architect who now designs furniture. I have designed a chair that i spent a year prototyping and developing and have exhibited it in numerous fairs (milan, ldf, clerkenwell etc). An outdoor furniture brand has contacted me and are interested in the product. I initially said no as its an indoor chair and i wouldn't be able to produce it anymore, then I proposed that they get the rights to the outdoor version and i keep the rights to the indoor one. I was then sent a contract whose title is 'design aquisition and transfer of exploitation rights' which states that my remuneration would be' 3% of the exploitation net income once deducted the amounts regarding expenses, transport and taxes obtained by the COMPANY as a consequence of the DESIGN commercialization, during all its validity'I have a number of issues with this because theres no way i can control the expenses, taxes, transport etc and because i find it to be incredibly low since they don't have any design development to do as I have already done all that. I am inclined to refuse the deal as i find its really unfair because i put a lot of money before they got in touch and has been in design publications and has had a lot of interest (NYT for example) I was wondering what your thoughts were. Thanks Sara"