portfolio inclusion?
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- mrboywonder
When working as a freelancer, what can and can you not include in your portfolio?
(thinly veiled) hypothetical situation:
work for a firm for a couple of weeks, and while there work on a logo (as sole designer working on project). after working there, add that logo to your portfolio.
(thinly veiled) hypothetical outcome:
contacted by firm one was freelancing at, and told the logo belongs to said firm and that it needs to be removed from portfolio.
there was never any paperwork and/or agreements regarding any work becoming property of the design firm... so i don't think the logo should be removed, but what do you think?
- Concrete0
If you designed it you designed it. Small claims court could help you with this and then you could claim compensation.
- UndoUndo0
referencing the firm you worked for next to the logo?
- fresnobob0
do it
- Nairn0
'there was never any paperwork and/or agreements regarding any work becoming property of the design firm... '
imo -
In that case, provided you don't care to ever work for them again, all you need do is add a polite proviso stating details of trademark ownership, but include it nonetheless.They have no legal grounding to actually prevent you from using it in the context of a portfolio.
Just don't try trading with it :)
- mrboywonder0
'all you need do is add a polite proviso stating details of trademark ownership, but include it nonetheless. '
can you point me to some sample wording for such a statement?
- Nairn0
ok, firstly - remember this is my OPINION, not Legal Absolute!
That said, I was in a similar position a few years back, and on my portfolio of the time, I stated the following ..
"All work remains the property of the copyright holders and no attempt at ownership is intended".
.. and I've never been sued.
I've also never been bitten by a lion, so you could derive whatever logic you want.
- Nairn0
gosh, it's still online..
..I really do need to clean out my server.
- honest0
I once interviewed a post-grad who had a beautiful book in his portfolio but after calling up the company it turned out he'd only researched the images! Hmph! Just be honest and maybe put in some info on what you did on it.
- mrboywonder0
well i'll give it a shot. i got the following info from a friend of mine:
"Sorry but he is right. When you worked for him, you were an agent of his company with or without signing anything. You pay slip is enough to confirm this. Legally, the only way you could show the work is to acknowledge that the work is the property of his studio."
If he were a semi-reasonable person I would send him an e-mail with proposed wording attributing the work to his studio... unfortunately he's a bit of a prick and i can't see him agreeing...
- Per_Guga0
In my OPINION.... if you designed it, it's your idea.... it's yours as well.....
Just say that the logo was developed while you where working in that firm and blablablablabla.... you know, give you the credit but share with the firm....
See ya
- kelpie0
I've also never been bitten by a lion, so you could derive whatever logic you want.
Nairn
(Jun 22 06, 04:01)sage