For your own business, or as a service you charge other businesses like yours for.
Nobody runs this lab yet. Take it, give it your hours and your prices, and it is yours.
Every line classified: rights assignment, service, or rebilled expenses. Nothing left hanging.
Google SheetsThe document with the expected wording, the scope of the assignment, and withholding shown or the exemption cited.
The message that goes with a rejected invoice or an exemption request, with the reference that helps.
GmailWhat was withheld, what was not, and what the contribution call is going to ask for.
A self-employed creative's real problem is not the filing, it is the boundary. Which piece of work is a copyright invoice, with rights assignment and tax withheld by the publisher, and which is an ordinary service invoice? A classification mistake is invisible when you write it: it shows up a year later, as withholding paid twice or as a back charge. Since 2026 the French artistic income declaration must be filed online, the campaign runs in spring, and the final payment schedule that follows reveals the top-up or the refund. An artist under withholding still has to declare, and can ask to be exempted. A lab takes the quote line by line, classifies it, issues the invoice and holds the quarterly review.
Worth more in month six than in week one.
The collections belong to the lab, not to any single magik. Every magik reads them and every run adds to them, which is why this lab is worth more in month six than in week one.
They all start empty. The first run writes the first row.
It wears your name, not ours.
The same lab, under your name, your colours and your logo. Your customers never see ours.
AskMOJOOn the Pro plan, and not needed to take a lab. A fully bespoke theme exists as an upgrade, hand built rather than self-serve.
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A tool built for exactly your job, and only that, will go deeper at that one job. This is for the jobs nothing covers, or the ones spread across three tools today.
Yes, and it is the most common mistake. Withholding is a deduction at source, not a declaration made on your behalf. An artist entirely under withholding who declares nothing ends up with an incomplete file and a wrong payment schedule, in either direction.
By looking at what the client walks away with. An original creation whose use they obtain falls under copyright; execution, laying out supplied content, retouching, production follow-up are services. The same job often contains both, which is why the lab works on the quote's lines, not on the job.
It changes your cash flow, not what you owe. With the exemption you receive the full amount and pay contributions on the quarterly calls; without it, the publisher deducts on every invoice. The question is not which costs less, it is which matches your ability to set money aside.
It is most creatives' daily reality, and it is not a problem as long as the two do not share one document. An invoice mixing rights assignment and services without separating them gets sent back by the client's accounts department as often as by the authorities.
That is how it works, not an incident: the final schedule comes after the declaration and squares up what the provisional calls estimated. What is not normal is finding out about it. This lab's quarterly review exists for exactly that, seeing the top-up coming before it arrives.
A tool built for exactly self-employed creatives working under copyright : designers, illustrators, photographers, writers, and only that, will go deeper at that one job. This lab is for the jobs no tool covers, or the ones spread across three tools today, and it runs under your name.
Every audience is still open.
Nobody has taken a square on this idea yet. You declare your audience when you take the lab (“roofers in Brittany”, “plumbers around Paris”), and two people can start from the same idea on two different audiences without getting in each other’s way.
And it wears your name, not ours.
The bundle describes a lab that does not exist yet : the jobs it would do, and an example of each output.
Open Knowledge Format : plain markdown, re-importable into any agent. No account, no lock-in.
You hear about a competitor's price change from your lab, not from a customer asking why you cost more.
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| Quote line | Amount | Nature | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual identity creation | 3 200 EUR | Rights assignment | Original creation, the client obtains its use |
| Rollout across 12 supplied assets | 900 EUR | Service | Execution on supplied content |
| Print production follow-up | 450 EUR | Service | No creation, coordination |
| Font licence purchase | 180 EUR | Rebilled expense | Disbursement, neither of the two |
One job, three natures. Invoiced as a single 4 730 euro copyright invoice, it would be wrong on 1 530 euros, and the mistake would only surface at reconciliation.
Copyright invoice no. 2026-014
Issued 12 August 2026. Publisher: example editions. Subject: visual identity for the Aurore collection.
| WorkWork | AmountAmount |
|---|---|
| Rights assignment, visual identity creation | 3 200.00 EUR |
| Gross total | 3 200.00 EUR |
Scope of the assignment
Reproduction and display rights assigned for France, for five years from first publication, across the collection's print and digital media. Any use outside that scope, including an advertising adaptation, requires an addendum.
Writing the scope rather than assigning all rights is not a lawyer's precaution: it is what makes a reuse billable instead of already paid for.
Withholding
The publisher withholds contributions on this gross amount and remits them. This invoice does not remove the obligation to file the annual artistic income declaration.
What is not on this document, and why
The rollout across the twelve supplied assets and the production follow-up are on a separate service invoice, no. 2026-015. They are not part of the rights assignment, and mixing them here would make both contestable.
Hello, You are asking me to merge the two documents into one invoice. I cannot, and I would rather explain why than answer with a procedure. The 3 200 euros on invoice 2026-014 is a copyright assignment: you withhold contributions on it and remit them. The 1 350 euros on invoice 2026-015 is service work, rollout across supplied assets and production follow-up, with no original creation at all. It is not subject to withholding. On a single document your team would withhold on everything, or on nothing. Either way the correction lands on one of us a year later, and experience says it lands on me. Both documents carry the same order reference and the same purchase order, if reconciliation is what is causing the trouble. I can also attach a one-page summary. Tell me what suits you and I will adapt on the format. Best regards
| Income | Gross amount | Withheld? | To expect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Example editions, invoice 2026-014 | 3 200 EUR | Yes, by the publisher | Nothing |
| Direct client, invoice 2026-018 | 1 800 EUR | No, client is not a publisher | Contributions to set aside |
| Reuse royalties | 410 EUR | No | Contributions to set aside |
| Services invoiced outside rights | 1 350 EUR | Not applicable | Business income, outside this call |
2 210 euros of artistic income not withheld this quarter. That is what the call will be based on, and it is the one figure to set aside now rather than discover in April.