Copyrights

.insane · 09-04-2006, 02:59 PM

That website you paid for. Who owns the copyright? You? Are you sure? Did the web designer actually assign you copyright? In writing?...

That logo you paid for. Who owns the copyright? You? Are you sure? Did the graphic designer actually assign you copyright? In writing?...

It's worth checking to ensure you will have full legal rights to any design work (if desired) before you have it commisioned. If you don't, it always belongs to the originator.

Chase it now before it's too late.

this following letter is the letter that i use to transfer copyrights use it as an example:

Quote:

First Name Surname
Company
Address
Suburb, State, ZIP Code
Date
Dear First Name,
Thank you for the opportunity to work with you on the development of your
Website. We are delighted to have been involved in the development of such a high
quality site.
It has been a pleasure to work with you on what I am sure will be a tremendous asset
for your business. We have already received some very positive feedback regarding
the site, and look forward to its ongoing success.
Thank you also for your check for the balance of the invoice due. As per our
agreement, we assign all copyright of the Web pages developed by us (including copy,
graphics, photographs and design) to (client company name) from this date.
Good luck with your business, and thanks again for your support of ours.
Yours sincerely,
Name
Title

There are some scammers that will make a website to you for close to dirtcheap than a few months later you get a letter in the mail from a lawyer to take your site down because the copyright belongs to person xyz, now you say no because abc designers made the website for you so than person xyz sues you and shows a letter in court saying that the copyright for you website was transfered to him by abc designers and you have to pay a huge payment and than abc designers and person xyz split the money

Michael · 09-10-2006, 09:27 AM

Hey .insane, a great post from you once again, im in London at a conference and ive herd alot about copyright, this is not leagle advice they say but they say all you have to do is put " (c) Copyright your company name " and it should be fine.

But there is this question like you say, when you sell a site and it has copyright on it, if its not copyright to the company/site you bought then do you get owner ship of copyright.

A Good form (Y) keep it work mate.

.insane · 09-20-2006, 06:03 PM

(c) Company Name that it is only copyright to you if you made the design or what not and if you are the original creator of the item, now lets say i make a site and i sell it to person b he does not own the copyright to the site unless i transfer the copyright even if he already paid for the site you still have to have a written transfer of the copyright

09-10-2006, 09:27 AM	#2 (permalink)
Michael Status: Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 255 Trader Rating: (0) TD$: 0.00 Donate	Re: Copyrights Hey .insane, a great post from you once again, im in London at a conference and ive herd alot about copyright, this is not leagle advice they say but they say all you have to do is put " (c) Copyright your company name " and it should be fine. But there is this question like you say, when you sell a site and it has copyright on it, if its not copyright to the company/site you bought then do you get owner ship of copyright. A Good form (Y) keep it work mate.

09-20-2006, 06:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
.insane Status: Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 54 Trader Rating: (0) TD$: 0.00 Donate	Re: Copyrights (c) Company Name that it is only copyright to you if you made the design or what not and if you are the original creator of the item, now lets say i make a site and i sell it to person b he does not own the copyright to the site unless i transfer the copyright even if he already paid for the site you still have to have a written transfer of the copyright

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