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Originally posted by Pornweaver
Pertaining to site designs, I have a few questions that maybe some of you can answer. I have read over the U.S. Copyright laws at this URL:
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
And I was wondering a couple of things:
1. If a designer builds a site for their customer, and over time, the customer goes out of business and is no longer using the work that was created for them... Can this work be reused elsewhere if the images used in the design are properly licensed?
2. If the designer does NOT specificly release any copyright to the customer, don't they still maintain the right to use their created works?
As far as I understand, there is no "implied" law pertaining to this, it seems pretty straight forward. I'm just wondering if I am off-base here.
Thanks
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1. Depends on the agreement
2. i think it's more like they have to explicitly state that they remain the copyright holder, otherwise one would argue, they were working under the implications of industry standards, and currently they are - pay for work, receive copyright
Our contract clearly states, that once the final payment has been made, the client is transferred the copyright for the work, except for our use of the work in our portfolio.