Intellectual Property Rights

Eire362436

Hi all! I have provided my employer with copious amounts of photos, images, designs etc to the company facebook page. This work done in my own time at my own expense, at my home. Am I entitled to remove this content if I wish?

Hogzy

Eire362436 wrote: »

Hi all! I have provided my employer with copious amounts of photos, images, designs etc to the company facebook page. This work done in my own time at my own expense, at my home. Am I entitled to remove this content if I wish?

You need to provide more information. What was the purpose of providing the images? Surely by providing them for free you were consenting to their use on facebook under the company name.

Eire362436

I helped set up the pages and have been adding graphics and images etc as we go along. It's not my company but I do have a lot of input, but it's on my own time. I assume if it's my own work done in my own time and If I choose to put it up, I can choose to take it down

Hogzy

Eire362436 wrote: »

I helped set up the pages and have been adding graphics and images etc as we go along. It's not my company but I do have a lot of input, but it's on my own time. I assume if it's my own work done in my own time and If I choose to put it up, I can choose to take it down

So if you are in control of the website just take it down. Is your employer objecting to it?

Eire362436

no, just it back I was never paid for it

Hogzy

Eire362436 wrote: »

no, just it back I was never paid for it

But were you paid for setting up the website?

Was it your decision to upload the particular images or did your boss suggest it?

BrianD

It's a Facebook page and not a website.

Is there any reason why you did it outside of work hours?

You may not have the authority to remove them but the company wouldn't have any claim to original files that you created on a non-company computer. he could ask for any assets that he gave you back.

Are you bothered? If you did it for free then what was your expectation?

Eire362436

I have done work outside of hours there for years... jsut the way it worked out. Paid for 40, work 60, more fool me, for the company etc etc. I put the stuff up myself to help enhance the company, no-one asked me to do it.

Hogzy

Eire362436 wrote: »

I have done work outside of hours there for years... jsut the way it worked out. Paid for 40, work 60, more fool me, for the company etc etc. I put the stuff up myself to help enhance the company, no-one asked me to do it.

I dont see what the problem is though if your employer is not causing an issue. The subject is moot. Technically you were consenting to supplying the images for free on the facebook page. If you wanted to be reimbursed for the images then you should have made it an issue at the outset.

Are you just trying to get one back on your previous employer?

CIARAN_BOYLE

Hogzy wrote: »

I dont see what the problem is though if your employer is not causing an issue. The subject is moot. Technically you were consenting to supplying the images for free on the facebook page. If you wanted to be reimbursed for the images then you should have made it an issue at the outset.

Are you just trying to get one back on your previous employer?

I presume that he felt that the out of hours work wouldbe considered in promotions but when passed over for a promotion wants to undo te work.

Eire362436

...and your presumption would be incorrect and inaccurate. I gave freely of my time and effort to help build the company, but where I'm from, the words "gee" and "thanks!" are sometimes used to show appreciation for work done gratis that the company profits from, and continues to do so. Maybe I'm a cynic, but one reaches a point where being taken for granted ceases to become a substitute for job satisfaction. Worse still, when this free work comes to an end, your loyalty and questioning of your committment becomes a daily theme. Go figure.