[thelist] Design Credit and Copyright and Ownership

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Thu Feb 7 10:47:10 CST 2002


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Hi Jon

Rights ownership and creditability are entirely separate.

Unless you have agreed otherwise (and many standard contracts
include non-disclosure agreements (aka NDA)), you are perfectly
at liberty to disclose what you worked on, and link to the live site.

You can say what you like as long as:
1) It's accurate (and you might want to think about 'diplomatic' if you
want
    to make negative comments or use them as a reference site)
2) You haven't agreed otherwise.

Where they get entangled a bit is in the case of screenshots of
final and/or working designs which you host. But it sounds like you've
already agreed rights for this.

Of course, bear in mind that all rights are yours until you explicitly
assign them away.

Cheers
Martin


To:   evolt <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject:  [thelist] Design Credit and Copyright and Ownership


Hi Everybody,

Does claiming design credit imply ownership of the copyright to the site or
ownership of the design of a site? In other words if the contract states
that the copyright belongs to the Client and that the Web Site ("all
developed source code and supporting documentation") is the property of the
Client, does this imply that the design credit would necessarily belong to
the Client or are these two separate issues.

We are negotiating the terms of the contract now, and the Client does not
have a problem with me including the site in my portfolio (there is
currently a clause in the contract allowing me to do this), but I want to
know what statements I will then be able to make about the work I did on
the
site or what language should be included in the contract for me to make
certain statements about the work I did.


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