Dids Macdonald, CEO, ACID, has spent a year creating the Safe Pitch Kit to ensure ACID's members are better equipped in protecting their IP rights than she was 10 years ago when a major high street retailer ripped off her designs.

ACID's Safe Pitch Kit is your one stop shop to building your own IP Tool Kit for better protection and a “must” in raising awareness that DESIGN = VALUE! The new ACID SAFE PITCH KIT – in a CD format with accompanying booklet, is an essential guide when responding to a pitch for creative ideas or when meeting with a design buyer. The kit includes downloadable and reusable generic agreements – confidentiality, intellectual property and a licence/royalty agreements (collective value £250). The kit includes common sense tips and guidance prior to responding to a pitch or attending a design buying meeting and valuable information about what to do if pitches go wrong. There is also a glossary and explanation of legal terminology.

The Safe Pitch Kit provides three Codes of Conduct which ACID has produced for Manufacturers, Graphic Design Buyers and Retailers who are invited to demonstrate their support and respect for the creators IP rights by signing the appropriate document. In doing so they are also demonstrating that they support ACID’s ongoing campaign “Commission it, Don’t Copy it!”. Signatories are invited to send signed copies to ACID.

Retailing for only £175.00 plus vat, the Safe Pitch Kit represents great value - a one off cost to help you protect your designs - as many time as you need to!