Portfolio/Reel Legal Rights and NDAs
Portfolio/Reel Legal Rights and NDAs
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- monNom0
Like it or not, that work you did actually belongs to your previous employer. You may retain some sort of morale rights (ie: authorship), but that would depend on the language of the contract, and would likely need to be settled in court if your old employer didn't agree. That sounds expensive, and probably not a great investment.
I'd try to stay on their good side and put together a really strong reel of public work you did for them. Get any approval in writing <-- very important.
- OK I'll probably do that but I'm wondering..eighteen
- ...why would anyone actually take a former empoyee to court just for showing publicly posted content in their reel to showcase their work?eighteen
- what are they to gain? what, if anything are they losing by a segment of some ad they commissioned being shown to like 5 or 10 potential employers?eighteen
- <-this. and next time be smart :)
i fucked myself once with this, and quit because they didn't wanted to change my nda form 5 to 2y.sted - Well the threatening letter I received from my former employer described it as the “tort of passing off”. That I was claiming property that wasn’t mine.monNom
- I had been given verbal okay by one of the partners, but never got it in writing. Months later I got contacted by their lawyers. Very shitty people.monNom
- To be clear, I was showing only work that was 100% my design work, AND crediting my former employer. Still dicks.monNom
- Wow, what happened after that monNom? Very interested to hear these stories this is why I made this threadeighteen