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: [email protected] p: +1 978 327 5561
http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks Twitter: @jmspool
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