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10 months ago

in Web Design Plagiarism on Plagiarism Today
I have a question: I designed websites for a company that later went down. My project manager had access to all of the PSDs that I designed. He later started his own business and listed tons of my designs as sites his company has designed. Legally I don't think I have rights to them (since I designed them for the orginal company that went out of business), but neither does he. Can anything be done? I can see listing sites you designed for another company in your personal portfolio, but starting a company with mockups of someone elses work is soo wrong. Can I do anything?
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Jonathan Bailey The question here is were you an independent contractor or an actual employee? If you were a contractor, you still have copyright in those works and you would be able to file DMCA notices and take other action as such designs If you were an employee, it is considered a work for hire and the company that went out of business owns those rights. They likely sold their copyrights when they went under as part of liquidation so the trick would be to find who holds those rights and write them.

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