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Image Copyright Question

  • 04-11-2006 10:41am
    #1
    rmary_brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Hello:

    I used to work as a graphic designer in a medium size company in Dublin.

    Now I want to start my own freelance career and I need to know if I will incurre in a copyright infrigment

    showing to my prospect clients the work I have done while employed for the company I mentioned.

    Must say that I'm the author of these images and my only intention is to show them as part of my portfolio

    in order to demonstrate my technical/artistic habilities and skills.

    I never signed a contract transfering authorship to my previous company, even though I realise they surely

    have the ownership and right to use them since I was their employee at the time.

    Can anyone prohibit me to show (ONLY TO SHOW) to my prospect clients my own work, even If I don't leave

    a digital or hardcopy or distribute it by any means?

    Would you have any information about this?

    Best regards

    Rose Mary.


Comments

  • #2
    tba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    There should be no problem unless you have signed a confidentiality agreement with your previous employer.


  • #3
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    tba wrote:
    There should be no problem unless you have signed a confidentiality agreement with your previous employer.

    Not so, you must have approval of copyright owner to use materials.


  • #4
    tba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA10Y1963S3.html
    (5) In the case of any copyright to which (whether in consequence of a partial assignment or otherwise) different persons are entitled in respect of the application of the copyright—

    ( a ) to the doing of different acts or classes of acts, or

    ( b ) to the doing of one or more acts or classes of acts in different countries or at different times,

    the owner of the copyright, for any purpose of this Act, shall be taken to be the person who is entitled to the copyright in respect of its application to the doing of the particular act or class of acts, or, as the case may be, to the doing thereof in the particular country or at the particular time, which is relevant to the purpose in question; and in relation to any future copyright to which different persons are prospectively entitled, references in this Act to the prospective owner shall be construed accordingly.


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