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PostPosted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:50 pm 
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I've got a legal question for you in regards to displaying work in an online portfolio. I am about to embark on seeking new employment and have been putting my site together. All of the work I am displaying is my work of course, majority being work done while with different employers, and some freelance.

I have permission to display the works from my previous employers, just not the current one. Legally I seem to understand that I could get into trouble for displaying the pieces from my current place of employment should my current boss ever find out. Yet I do not want to ask permission, thus blowing any cover for a job search.

Herein is my dilemma...should I include some type of disclaimer stating that I am only representing the work that I myself have done? Should I not show the pieces from my current employment? Help!

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Is it really necessary? If you can get by with a dozen good pieces without dipping into your current stash, you should be fine. There's no need to put everything you've ever done out there.

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Also, I bet about the worst they could do legally is make you take it down.

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Wait, also, what kind of work is this? Any posters?

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I'm actually not showing that much, I'd just like to show a couple of the pieces that are award-winning from this current job. I've been here for 2 and a half years, so that's a big chunk to not show much from.

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Food & Beverage, which is definitely specialized work. Another reason I want to show some of it.

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If you feel like bending the rules, you could take the pieces, arrange them nicely and take a photograph of it, then use the photograph.

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If you feel like bending the rules, you could take the pieces, arrange them nicely and take a photograph of it, then use the photograph.


That's actually what I've already done with all of the pieces. How does this bend the rules? Does this keep me safe?

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juice Wrote:
Cool Hand Fu Wrote:
If you feel like bending the rules, you could take the pieces, arrange them nicely and take a photograph of it, then use the photograph.


That's actually what I've already done with all of the pieces. How does this bend the rules? Does this keep me safe?


I'm no copyright lawyer, but you own copyright on the photograph, and as long as you don't use the photograph (or composition) for the sole purpose of recreating the original (i.e. tightly cropped), then you should be fine. I don't have any copyright privileges with Time Magazine, but if I photograph Time Magazine on a coffee table, or put Time in a new context, it's fair game.

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i don't understand the dilema.
if it's all your work don't you have full right to put it in your portfolio?

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jewels santana Wrote:
i don't understand the dilema.
if it's all your work don't you have full right to put it in your portfolio?

It's not "his" because it was a work for hire, basically. He doesn't own the copyrights on the material - the company he worked for does. However, since he is a graphic artist, and since he is judged on the kinds of work he does, it's only reasonable that his portfolio be filled with examples of work that he's done for employers. I see no problem with this - it's not like the work is being given to other people to use for their profit. The only time it could be a problem is if he had done work on top-secret programs that he'd had special clearances for, which of course would then be off-limits for use in his portfolio. He'd already know that, however.

I used to work for Boeing, and while I didn't do anything with any high-security work, everything I did was considered trade secrets because it involved manufacturing processes, so when I went looking for a new job, I actually had to create a bunch of stuff to show off.

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Mayor is right. It's work-for-hire, so they hold copyright.

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