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May 25, 2005, 06:17 #1
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Suggestion for Contest Forum rules
I've noticed the rules do not include anything about the issue of designers using their entries in portfolios.
Check my post in this thread to see what I mean.
Are the designers supposed to guess that a message such as...
As regards the copyright, all copyright will pass to my client when I receive the winning file but the designer can still use it in their portfolio with text along the lines of: 'sub-contracted by AKA Design Solutions to produce ...'.
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May 25, 2005, 06:48 #2
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Egor - its an interesting thoughts actually and I am not sure many people have thought about it.
I am in two minds about it all actually as I think that you should be able to display your work in a portfolio without prior request...
I am going to ask the other guys what they think and get back to youRegular user
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May 25, 2005, 07:32 #3
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Thanks Sarah. Another little issue I wanted to bring up is contest holders asking for fonts to be provided in contests such as logo and template designs. Some of the fonts designers use are commercial and can't be redistributed. Whether the designer themself downloaded these commercial fonts for free is another question, but either way, isn't that concidered piracy?
I brang that up in a contest a while ago, but all of the designers disagreed with me.
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May 25, 2005, 07:42 #4
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Originally Posted by mstwntd
In most terms of use, whether it's for fonts or images, there are caveats about reselling or redistribution of the components, whether it's in a design program or a reseller like Getty or I-stock or a font-seller. Many times the terms also specify that the image, font, etc. can't even be manipulated or changed and then resold.
While this is not a big issue for those who are reselling the works, it is a big issue for the buyers. Copyright law makes no provision for the excuse "The designer told me that he had license to resell the work".Linda Jenkinson
"Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean." ~Unknown
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May 25, 2005, 08:29 #5
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For what these contests usually pay.... I ask the contest owner at the time of transfer of files if I can use the design in my portfolio. No one has had a problem. I've never been ask to add a "subcontracted" statement, that may have been an oversight on the part of the contest holders at the time. As to the font question...that's still up in the air.
If my design doesn't sell...it's my concept and design, I've never transferred ownership, so if you have a problem take me to court.
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May 25, 2005, 09:34 #6
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Originally Posted by phacker
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May 25, 2005, 21:06 #7
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Originally Posted by Sarah
Great! I think posting revisions of the design all over and over and over again is a waste of precious time. IMHO that is. It would be great if a Client chooses a designer through viewing of portfolio collective and work with the designer there and then. Get my drift right?
*cross fingers*stay hungry, stay foolish.
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May 26, 2005, 05:05 #8
Originally Posted by biggdesign
On the other hand, for someone to just pick the designer based on their portfolio would defeat the purpose of having a contest.Sara
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May 26, 2005, 05:26 #9
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Alot of contest holders are submitting the designs for client appraisal, so they'd look pretty silly submitting something that has a typo, or, is not of the color scheme which might have been mentioned in the brief.
Where it gets nasty, is when a contest holder tells contestant A to use an attribute of contestant B's design - that's just simply unfair on contestant B, and may put contestant A in an ethical dilemma... which, shouldn't come as any surprise.
working hard is hard work
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May 26, 2005, 07:09 #10
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Originally Posted by Ainslie X11
If a color scheme was mentioned in the brief it should be passed on in the original post by the contest holder so everyone is on the same page.
The last part of your comment I've run up against, but refused to go there. I won one contest even having refused.
Pat
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May 31, 2005, 12:08 #11
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It can also get "nasty" or really not "nasty", but can change the outcome of a contest when idle chit chat and pats on the back happen:
And I could have sworn I saw you taking part in that. I don't think anything has changed.
Originally Posted by Ainslie X11
You can always contact these people by pm, but then it's not quite as public and doesn't have the reciprocal power to it.Last edited by phacker; May 31, 2005 at 15:10.
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