Generic consulting contract with Creative Commons license provision

LogicalOutcomes, a Canadian nonprofit that develops open source and open access tools for evaluation and monitoring, earns its income through paid consulting projects. Many consulting clients request full and exclusive ownership of any work that is developed during a project funded by them. We believe that this approach to contracting creates barriers to collaboration and sharing. 

The attached contract template includes a section on proprietary rights that cites Creative Commons licensing of work products. The template may be helpful for other nonprofits and consulting groups who are developing open tools.  

Proprietary Rights

[CLIENT] will have full rights and joint ownership over any templates, reports, or otherwise (collectively hereinafter “Work Products”) produced by LogicalOutcomes as result of or in connection with this Contract and under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

To the extent that [CLIENT] provided data is used to create the Work Product, joint ownership shall be construed to mean ownership by [CLIENT] and LogicalOutcomes of the Work Product created by LogicalOutcomes and excluding any [CLIENT] provided data. For the avoidance of doubt, any [CLIENT] data which forms a part of the Work Product created under this Contract, remains the property or licensed property of [CLIENT] and may not be used, transferred, sub-licensed, distributed or reproduced by LogicalOutcomes for any purpose other than the activities in the Statement of Work.