[thelist] Design Credit and Copyright and Ownership

[Jon]

Thanks, Martin. That was my interpretation as well. This helps.

Jon

> From: <martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com>
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 14:36:16 +0000
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Design Credit and Copyright and Ownership
>
>
> 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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