Signing away your rights
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Thanks for the thoughts people, it's good to hear some other thoughts on it.
This guy's comment was good from Morning Star's link
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I would tend to disagree slightly with your legal interpretation. While the work done for an agency is under a "work for hire" copyright arrangement, there is a long-standing practice of creatives including work in a portfolio. Therefore, in the absence of a specific contract, normal industry practice applies. Which means that, unless you have signed an agreement to the contrary, the agency has the copyright for all uses, but you are allowed to put the work in your folio.
On a more practical level, for an online portfolio, make sure that none of your work comes up in searches by client or agency name. So avoid using client or agency names when naming pages, files, images or alt tags and minimise the mentions of these client names in headers.
- Your existing contracts state the anything you do is "Work for Hire"?Josev