At 01:26 PM 7/28/1998 -0800, Suzanne so eloquently stated:
>>All the more reason to define the rights clearly in a written contract, eh?
>>Or do you think, when it comes right down to it, the contract won't matter
>>much either if the client has a more powerful lawyer/legal threat?
>
>Don't know. Fortunately the only time we've come close to a lawsuit was in
>a tiff with the Frank Lloyd Wright Gift Shop in the Marin County
>Courthouse. The client had directed an SF service bureau to modify some of
>our files without our permission, the output got botched by a hidden
>Illustrator layer, and the client tried to force us to assume financial
>responsibility for their screwing around with our files without our
>permission. The client ended up taking our
>not-at-all-legal-in-the-strictest-sense faxed agreement specifying our
>ownership of the files down to a County lawyer, who took one look at it and
>said, "Pay them." (Perhaps being on the County's salary rolls, he had no
>reason to pursue a worthless lawsuit.)
>
Brings up an interesting point. We all know the U.S. with 5% of
the world's population, and 95% of the world's attorneys, is sue
happy. What I wonder is are there parts of the US that sue more?
I would bet NYC area.
G
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