Disclaimer of online Portfolio works

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Disclaimer of online Portfolio works

When publishing work online, equally part of a portfolio/cocky advertising, of artwork/pattern/concepts, which were created whilst employed at a previous company/firm, is there an official style to construct a disclaimer/copyright so viewers(or anyone) is aware of ownership and who distributed it etc?

I'1000 assuming I still need some form of copyright cover to display it even though I'm the author?
Can the disclaimer comprehend examples of work that were created in a collaborative surround... Say a team?

To give you some scope, I'm in the procedure of making an online portfolio and under each image, I figured I'd demand some grade of protection for the epitome, me as an author/creator, the visitor I worked for and the owner/client of the works...

Anyway, this is what I've written so far:

Disclaimer:
Piece shown equally part of my online portfolio of by works.
I am the original writer but the image was created/distributed whilst employed at a previous visitor.
The epitome'south buying is that of whom contracted the creation of the cartoon.

Thank you in accelerate for your help.

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Hi downtime,
If I take this correctly you wish to display piece of work you created just which was done while you were employed past a company, and some or all of the work was actually commissioned by clients of the company.
If that is correct then as you bespeak, the company is the owner of the copyright in the artwork, but you lot are its author. To be strictly legal, you need permission from your former employer to brandish your artwork where the public tin run into it, but because of the contractual relationship between the visitor and its clients, this might not be every bit straightforward as information technology seems. For example the client will take a licence from the company to use the piece of work in certain means. If this licence was either an exclusive one or a sole use licence, so the company may be prevented from allowing you to as well employ the artwork. An exclusive licence ways that just the licensee may use the piece of work, either for a specified time or in a specified territory, while a sole licence ways that the copyright owner (the company) may use the work simply cannot event another licence in improver to the client (again often for a specific time or in a express territory).
Presuming that yous can obtain permission from the company, then the sort of copyright observe ought to be specified by them, but could be something like:
Artist: Reanimation. © The Company 2013, all rights reserved.
If the work is the upshot of a collaboration, you could either list all the names of the artists, or if the group had some collective name, utilize that. The customer of the company would not need to be named if they are only a licensee. Only if the customer acquired the copyright every bit part of the commission, would you lot demand to consider them, as they would and then supervene upon the visitor every bit the people from whom you need to become permission.
A copyright discover is non legally required, simply where annihilation is placed on the internet it is highly advisable as a deterrent to those who routinely take and reuse work which is not theirs.

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Hi, cheers so much for the in-depth reply.

That seems like a lot of effort, but completely justifiable.

The company I did the illustrations for is no-longer agile and I did the illustrations over 7 years ago. Upon leaving, my dominate (owner and director of the company) gave me exact permission to employ the work equally part of a portfolio.

If buying and copyright is that strict, I may not bother creating an online portfolio.

I've seen a lot of examples online where people say in a defended copyright disclaimer that their sites(portfolio) by work is from previous firms, but never have I seen anything that name the owners or visitor they worked for...

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Hullo reanimation,
As I mentioned, there is no legal requirement for a copyright notice, so if you lot are happy that you have permission, just go ahead and use the images with a credit to yourself equally the artist/creator of the work. That fashion yous achieve some of the deterrent effect I spoke of, and if anyone wants to get permission to utilize any of your work, at least they have a contact to follow upwards. At that phase you tin explain that you are not the copyright possessor, but that you can create something similar for them, which I assume is the purpose of your online portfolio.

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Ok, thanks for the data Andy. Much appreciated.