Timeline for How to handle client requests to violate copyrights?
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May 16, 2018 at 13:47 | history | edited | curious♦ |
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Jun 8, 2017 at 9:05 | comment | added | Mawg | "Do a Google image search for 'XXX XXX XXX' and you'll see everyone is using it" - sounds like a teenager explaining that "everybody" shoplifts. Good luck with that | |
Mar 31, 2015 at 23:06 | answer | added | Volker Siegel | timeline score: 15 | |
Jun 27, 2014 at 18:42 | history | edited | Scott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Mar 9, 2014 at 17:52 | comment | added | Alexander Rechsteiner | Nice to see you are worrying about copyright for your client. The last time I hired a designer, he included copyrighted material he pulled out of Tumblr or wherever and it was up to me to make sure they don't make their way into the final product (A Bootstrap Theme for sale) | |
Feb 21, 2014 at 7:51 | vote | accept | Scott | ||
Feb 2, 2014 at 13:57 | answer | added | Aaron Hall | timeline score: 3 | |
Feb 2, 2014 at 7:01 | answer | added | user19480 | timeline score: 5 | |
Feb 1, 2014 at 20:10 | comment | added | GµårÐïåñ | @LaurenIpsum they can't fire you for respecting the law and doing the right thing, that would be a wrongful termination :) Not really an end run, you are asking for permission and what results from the person saying no is not your doing. I rather be fired wrongfully for doing the right thing than to keep a job that can put me on the hook legally. | |
Feb 1, 2014 at 5:20 | answer | added | plainclothes | timeline score: 13 | |
Feb 1, 2014 at 1:36 | comment | added | OghmaOsiris | I get this a LOT at the print shop I work at. I have a copy of the law stating what I can and can't print and what is considered under copyright and I constantly have to turn people away because I refuse to break the law for these people. They have given me every excuse in the world "It personal, not for profit." "But I own this book..." "No one is going to know, just do it.", etc. Every single one of them gets pissed at me and leaves, but seriously I could get sued for $150,000 (which the company was by the Jahovah's Witnesses for making copies of the Watchtower). | |
Feb 1, 2014 at 1:27 | comment | added | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | @GµårÐïåñ doing that kind of end-run around your client might be a fireable offense, but in this situation, that might be a feature rather than a bug. | |
Jan 31, 2014 at 22:37 | answer | added | Christos Hayward | timeline score: 11 | |
Jan 31, 2014 at 18:28 | comment | added | GµårÐïåñ | You should never do it if you even suspect its a violation because as @TunaMaxx max said, its on you no matter who made you do it. To indemnify yourself as best as possible, I suggest that you reach out to the copyright holder and let them know that your client wants to use this work and do you have permission to do so. If they say yes, you are done, if they say no, ask them to notify your client in writing and that should get them off your case and protect you in the process. This way, YOU are not the bad guy saying no, you tried. | |
Jan 31, 2014 at 17:37 | comment | added | TunaMaxx | The answers here are good so I won't bother adding my own. The only thing I have to add is that you are the designer that will be attached to this when (if) it all hits the fan. Contract clause or not, the layman will attach blame to you. | |
Jan 31, 2014 at 17:32 | answer | added | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | timeline score: 39 | |
Jan 31, 2014 at 17:01 | answer | added | DA01 | timeline score: 23 | |
Jan 31, 2014 at 16:49 | answer | added | Ryan | timeline score: 63 | |
Jan 31, 2014 at 16:33 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackDesign/status/429291252073656320 | ||
Jan 31, 2014 at 16:08 | history | asked | Scott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |