> >Hah! I'd be busing those same tables, hoping for a
> >small percentage of *your* tips!
>
> Why do you say that Dwayne? From your .sig you seem to work for a multidia
> shop that concentrates on providing a service to clients.
Close. Graphic design (for print and web). Just dipping our toes into
multimedia, but hoping to push into it more and more.
>You all don't
> have any control over the intellectual works you create anyway do you?
> Your client does. How will the loss of IP affect you personally?
Like all artists (including you, if you do any free-lance work) we have
complete control: As the creators, either we keep full copyright (as
U.S. law states), or we sell it (or parts of it) to the companies for whom
we create.
> Myself I provide a service to my employer,
Work for hire. You're right, your work as an employee is completely
the property of HotWired.
But, as for anything you do outside work ...
>and as for my own stuff, well I
> plan to artistic liscence that anyway.
Make 'em pay for it. Not just the work, the *rights* to the work!
-- Dwayne Purper Chapel Hill, N.C. USA http://www.futmedia.com ---------------------------- The horror, the horror: No. 5 on the bestseller list, "America Online for Dummies." ----------------------------