RE: FLASH: Confidentiality agreements

[David Giannetto]

I have only had minor dealing with web attorney's for some of my clients

but the general rule of thumb is that the designer owns everything, the

ideas, the images, the content of the site unless they sign it all away

in an agreement.  so if you design a site and that client leaves you

for another design team they don't take your site and give it to them,

it is yours to take off line.  the new company starts from scratch.

so usually the developer doesn't push to sign anything because they

can only sign away right that are theirs by default.


I'm not giving legal advice or anything, that's just what I've seen in

my dealings. anyone has other insight, please jump in..

Dave


> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media [SMTP:maildartfrogmedia [dot] com]

> Sent:	Thursday, January 20, 2000 10:19 AM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject:	Re: FLASH: Confidentiality agreements

> 

> At 03:45 AM 1/20/00 , you wrote:

> 

> >A month or so ago there was a really in-depth posting about designer's 

> >rights to .fla files and what agreements to make potential customers sign

> 

> >before showing them the goods.

> >

> >I have lost my Flasher archive and would really appreciate it if anyone 

> >(including the author of that very insightful mail) could re-send it in

> my 

> >direction! I am in a situation where I might be losing a client, before 

> >the re-pitch has even begun, and want to make sure that they don't give 

> >all my ideas away to the much bigger company that might be getting the 

> >work instead, as I will still be pitching...

> >

> >Thanks a bunch!

> >

> >Marianne Sorensen.

> 

> See the Graphic Artists Guild website for a sample letter of agreement

> that 

> includes language restricting the client's ability to use your ideas, 

> including ideas that come up in proposals, sketches, etc.

> http://www.gag.org

> 

> Marc Hoffman

> 

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