I am a designer for a design firm that maintains a portfolio of work. This portfolio of work includes examples of work for past clients. All clients we sign a contract with are notified of this and none have ever had a problem with their project ending up in our portfolio. We even offer as a service to NOT include work in the portfolio at steeply increased cost as agreeing to that hurts our company's ability to get further work based on our entire portfolio. No one has ever paid for or requested that service.
I recently received a DMCA take down notice from the lawyer of a client (Client A) of one of our clients (Client B). Client A feels that the 4 conceptual 3D interior renderings we made for Client B and posted in our online portfolio violates their copyright and privacy. Client B delivered our work to Client A. Client B knew of our inclusion of all work performed in our portfolio. Client B states they never had an exclusion agreement with Client A.
As a company we maintain that we have explicit right to show our work for the purposes of acquiring more work from other clients. My question to the Community is, am I violating this person's copyright if I accurately maintain my portfolio of past work?
i've been working with the web for over 10 years, and until amazon came along the thought never occured to me to save users the time of re-filling out information i already store in my database keyed to their usernames... DAMN, yet another opportunity wasted...
seriously, USPTO != FTW.
technology patents == innovation stifling
US version of capitalism == those w/ money grease wheels of gov't, greased wheels make absurd decisions that have anything but consumer interest in mind. think wireless companies and broadband providers...
if this is shocking to you - read your history and you will just have your hopelessness in the greed of man re-inforced.
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slightly offtopic - Designers' Portfolio Rights and copyright infringement
I am a designer for a design firm that maintains a portfolio of work. This portfolio of work includes examples of work for past clients. All clients we sign a contract with are notified of this and none have ever had a problem with their project ending up in our portfolio. We even offer as a service to NOT include work in the portfolio at steeply increased cost as agreeing to that hurts our company's ability to get further work based on our entire portfolio. No one has ever paid for or requested that service.
I recently received a DMCA take down notice from the lawyer of a client (Client A) of one of our clients (Client B). Client A feels that the 4 conceptual 3D interior renderings we made for Client B and posted in our online portfolio violates their copyright and privacy. Client B delivered our work to Client A. Client B knew of our inclusion of all work performed in our portfolio. Client B states they never had an exclusion agreement with Client A.
As a company we maintain that we have explicit right to show our work for the purposes of acquiring more work from other clients. My question to the Community is, am I violating this person's copyright if I accurately maintain my portfolio of past work?
well, it really isn't obvious...
i've been working with the web for over 10 years, and until amazon came along the thought never occured to me to save users the time of re-filling out information i already store in my database keyed to their usernames... DAMN, yet another opportunity wasted...
seriously, USPTO != FTW.
technology patents == innovation stifling
US version of capitalism == those w/ money grease wheels of gov't, greased wheels make absurd decisions that have anything but consumer interest in mind. think wireless companies and broadband providers...
if this is shocking to you - read your history and you will just have your hopelessness in the greed of man re-inforced.