Re: FN-FORUM Portfolio - what are my rights?

date posted 29th January 2003 16:40

on 29/1/03 2:45 pm, Adrian MacTaggart at [EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote:

> I have a client that I have done freelance webdesign for in the past and
> there is one site in particular that we were both involved with at a design
> level and I did the site build.
>
> The site was for a client of my client and I have never met the owners of
> the site, so I doubt they know a freelancer worked on it.
It may be that your client doesn't want his to know?
>
> Since then I have set up my own company site and have included the website
> in my portfolio. My client has just e-mailed me to say that his "newswire"
> service picked up on this a few days ago.
>
> My client informs me that he reports to his client on "news" featuring their
> company name and so has asked that I remove the website from my portfolio.
>
> Firstly, what exactly does a newswire service inolve?

> Secondly, I do not want to remove the website from my portfolio and we have
> no contract between us, so what are my rights?

I don't think it's quite right for you to show it as solely your work. Could
you come to an agreement with your client that you say on your portfolio
'project undertaken in collaboration with yourclientname' and show a
screenshot if he doesn't want a link. Surely the more times his client's
site is visited the better?

>
> Many thanks for any thoughts,
>
> Adrian