Tara, I think you might be able to find some answers on the AIGA site<http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/design-and-business>. There appear to be some articles that address this exact topic.
Best of luck, Hugh Griffith User Interface Designer On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Jared Spool <jsp...@uie.com> wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Tara Goskie wrote: > > Since I was paid to create the designs, I'm >> afraid I may not have the rights to request the files. Is there any >> third person I could contact for assistance? What would be the >> appropriate way to handle the issue? >> > > > Tara, > > Be careful about the advice you've seen here. > > Employment law is mostly dictated at the state level, not federal. It is my > understanding that many if not most states default to a "work for hire" > agreement, which would mean that the company that pays owns the work unless > explicitly excluded in a hire agreement. > > Illegally harboring copies of work that belong to someone else would border > on unethical behavior and I don't think we, as a community, should be > encouraging that. (After all, we'd be all up in arms if the situation were > reversed.) > > IxDA Board, > > I think it would be an awesome service of the IxDA to hire an employment > lawyer to put together general guidance on this issue. It would be > especially awesome to have said lawyer help with some boilerplate contract > clauses that we, as a community, could add to our hiring agreements, so that > we can protect our rights to demonstrate our work to future employers and > clients. > > That's my thoughts, > > Jared > > Jared M. Spool > User Interface Engineering > 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 > e: jsp...@uie.com p: +1 978 327 5561 > http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks Twitter: @jmspool > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
