Intellectual Property and Ownership

Each party retains ownership of intellectual property they brought into the engagement. The Client owns their brand assets, copy, customer data, and prior IP. Henry Onyx Studio owns its internal frameworks, design systems, code libraries, tooling, and accumulated know-how.

Custom work product includes the visual designs, written copy, code, and deliverable files we produce specifically for the engagement. This work product is licensed to the Client during the engagement to review and approve. On verified final payment, custom work product transfers to the Client outright.

Any Henry Onyx internal component — for example, our shared UI primitives, build tooling, design tokens, or analytics scaffolds — remains our property even when used inside your delivered project. We grant the Client a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use these components inside the delivered project, but not to extract them and resell them or use them outside the project.

Third-party assets — fonts, stock imagery, plugins, paid services — are licensed under their original terms. Their licences are listed in the project handover document. The Client is responsible for keeping any subscription-based third-party assets active after handover.

Unless the Client explicitly opts out in writing before kickoff, Henry Onyx Studio reserves the right to feature the delivered project in its portfolio, case studies, and marketing materials. Where Client confidentiality requires it, we redact sensitive figures and replace branding before publication.

Source code is delivered through a private repository — typically Git — accessible to the Client at handover. Once handover is complete, we revoke our admin access at the Client's request, while retaining a snapshot for warranty support.

Concepts, principles, and aesthetic ideas explored during an engagement remain in our heads and our portfolio of approaches. We do not promise that no future client will arrive at a similar idea — and the Terms of Engagement make clear that ideas, in the abstract, are not exclusive.