Suz wrote:
> Keep in mind that the Georgia chapter of the
> Graphic Artists
> Guild has succeeded in getting a law through the state legislature
> requiring printers to contact graphic designers for copyright release
> before ever reprinting a job for which they have the film on file.
> Presumably under the Georgia law, the designer owns the rights to the
> layout of a print project regardless of whether or not it incorporates a
> client's logo.
Do you know what the verbiage is for the agreement? Do they actually use the
word "layout". If so, what distinquishes a printed layout from a web page
layout? It seems to me that it comes down to the fact that a web page is
more fluid/easy to edit, and hence is harder to protect, but how does a law
differentiate between the two? Even if a web page layout was considered a
template, there would still be rights attached to it, as there are in the
"professionally designed" layouts that come with FrontPage and the like,
where the template developers probably signed over their rights, but at
least had some to sign over - or they receive royalties (unlikely, but
possible) or stock options.
If the Georgia law were carried over to web pages, would it translate to
something like "designer must be contacted prior to making changes to
his/her design"? Really, a direct translation to the web medium would be
something like "designer must be contacted before design is reprinted",
which wouldn't apply, except, I guess, in new printed materials that used
elements or full pages from the site.
??
Jack
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