Who owns my wife's site?
Hey all, I have a situation... My wife paid another performing artist to create a website for her, which in their arrangements included hosting. For my understanding this is a work for hire, since he...
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Work for hire is actually a specific agreement that you enter into and very few artists in their right mind agree to that without very compelling reasons.
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Then when you pay a person to make a website, what exactly are you buying? What rights come with contracting with a designer to provide a service (designing a website) and what rights do they keep?
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Did he put in writing that he would own the art? If not he doesn't own the design, but he does own the coding. They are separate things. You can't have another web guy copy and paste his code and use...
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If I understand you correctly, then... The graphic design that appears on the screen is what was purchased, not the file that produces it on the web? I ask because it seems odd that one could take the...
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Then there's this that totally contradicts what my boss says. I'll wait and ask our web guy when he gets in. http://www.wisecounselpress.com/articles/hired_gun.html
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It is only considered work for hire if there was a written contract... http://www.copylaw.com/forms/Workhire.html
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Becky, thank you for taking the time to ask around... You rock! I believe it was negotiated over email, not via a proper written contract, so I doubt a formal agreement of work for hire status may not...
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Typically the way that freelance web design contracts work (at least the ones I've been dealing with for the last 10 years) are that you given unlimited usage rights to the work as long as the invoice...
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Just be careful doing that, if he knows how to get back into your webpage, he can sabotage it! We got a new client, we took over their account, took their web and the old web guy hacked in and made it...
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All I can say is http://web-design.tribe.net/thread/447b89b2-73bc-4761-9bd7-2fd297cc5497 Not all the facts have been clearly laid out and as designers you should be careful about giving advice...
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There was never an argument in these threads until you posted, until then it was a a query to a community well versed in the topic at hand. So far your business practice in this situation speaks for...
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None of these people practice in Canada MT and so they don't fall into "my community" Canda and US have very different ways of doing business. Lets not get into what my business can handle and can't...
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don't know where you are located in canada but if you are in ontario contact the RGD Ontario and ask them. kay.
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Um, MT, sounds like the designer knows what's up. I agree with the designer, if you are not the contact person, than you should take some deep breaths and let it go. If you wife is handling it, let her...
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I'm a dork, i just looked at how long ago this was posted... %-S
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Actually I'm interested in how this turned out..my daughter has an ex.. who was the code writer and she a graphic designer whose site is being redirected to another account they both worked on...where...
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I handed it all over and now the site isn't running right. I had done the job as a "friend" for an extremely low price. I had offered upgrades that would make it more functional and run faster etc....
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