Suzanne wrote:
> this is NOT true under US law. Under US law, the creator owns the copyright
> unless he or she has agreed to work under a "work for hire" contract or
> unless he or she is an employee of the commissioning company.
So, you don't do your work as work for hire? You leasing them their
site graphics?
If not WFH, why not? I tend to charge them up front for everything--and
if that means we have to pay a graphic artist more for full rights, then
we bid it that way. When they pay, the work goes away and I move on.
Similarly, with the latest project I required in the RFP that graphics
not only be created originally in print-friendly format (yes, we pay
extra for it, but it means they'll likely get both contracts if they can
meet the requirement), but I want original photoshop files (with layers
preserved) as well. No one seems to be having a problem with this . .
.. Not going to pay to have the color of the text on the icons changed,
or a background layer altered, over the long term when I can do it
myself in 3 minutes.
Guess there might be reasons an artist would approach it differently,
but in my current hat, I sort of see what I'm bidding out as buying the
package, and the package includes photoshop files, code snippets and
everything else I need to understand the site they're building for me.
Contract can say they can re-use elements of graphics and code, but just
not in any way that is competing with the look they're doing for us.
Or maybe the artists are simply taking it out on their managers . . .
first time I've been this far removed from the team (and had multiple
teams to boot). <G>
Anyway, I'm sort of curious as to what's driving the long term
"ownership" attachment to the work?
Brett
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