Re: OT:Re: your views on copyrights

[Wayne Townsend]

Hi Lane, good post,


<snip>(look it up)


>This is some of the revisions that they want us to do for the

>proposal. I personally just find this unethical as heck.


>Errr! I am wondering what others have been "granting" to their clients in

>similar situations?


Stand by Lane, it gets worse.  In general, clients expect to own *anything*

you do for them.  When regularly employed at an engineering firm, some of

them go so far as to claim rights to *anything you do*, and I'm including

unrelated stuff, even on your own time, and produced on your own hardware,

24hours/7days.  I'm not joking. This is common now.  It's a very good bet

that MM legally and literally *owns* the entire Flash team, including Jon.


Obviously, programmers like me disagree with that concept.  But since

*they* are paying the bills, it usually comes down to an ultimatum of

accept it or get out.  I couldn't accept that, so I got out.


>but is it so wrong that we want our name on the work that we did?


No it isn't.  Just do it in your portfolio when marketing to new clients.

That's what you really want anyway.  They can't touch you for that.  Keep

good records to prove you did the work.


/w


Wayne Townsend

WebStaffing.Net

Dallas, Texas

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