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

date posted 29th January 2003 16:54

My gut instinct and my own views on this matter is (correct me if I'm wrong)
that there is little that is factually incorrct at your end, you designed a
website for which you were paid.
You're politely inner promoting their website by means of capture or
screenshot with a link as a working portfolio.

I would imagine your clients hidden agenda concern is that he didn't design
it, there is no reason to ask you to remove it unless your clients work is
no longer online, or does not represent correctly the end user etc etc.

My advice would be as someone else suggested, do a small screen shot, define
your role and if it's that much of an arseache issue remove the end link to
that site, after all their loss isn't it?

It makes me howl to think certain clients act so bold as to reduce potential
referals?! I would also view this as an ego control issue with your client
obviously "rapping" your knuckles. As a freelancer, self employed person I
very rarely take knucle rapping lying down, and those who succeed lose out
anyway.

All the best and as a close family friend always tells me, never stoop
beneath the lowest branch, do what you feel is right morally and
spiritually, legal stuff.....bring it on...

Rights? you have them all, no contract, but payment for a wbsite job, a
record of the end product that you state you created, all that has happened
is an ego request to remove, I wouldn't, I'd leave it and ignore, plus find
more work rather than worry about trivial issues (I appreciate they are not
trivial to you but he is)

Another forum user did raise the "gamble" scnenario, if he's likely to give
you more work, play ball and meet him somewhere down the line, if it was a
one off, leave it to your own gut instinct and possibly forget about it.

Sorry to have rambled on, but I have been in your shoes a few times as a
designer.
Steve Gunter
www.tgo-ltd.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian MacTaggart" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:45 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM Portfolio - what are my rights?


> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Many thanks for any thoughts,
>
> Adrian
>
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