Including work in portfolio?

Hey guys,

How would you deal with a situation where a client asks you not to put a work in your portfolio?

Obviously, the content of a portfolio is works you have completed, so if every client was asking you not to display work in your portfolio, you would never have one.

However, I can understand this may happen, but what are the rules about that? Would you charge more?

Cheers, Greg

huh? you mean the client doesn’t want you to display his project in your portfolio? sometimes that’s understandable if it’s a big brand or if the project has restricted user access or something like that. or if the client is dealing with the brand and is outsourcing to you then he will take full credit for the work. sometimes you could get away with having a small screenshot with no URL link to the site in your portfolio, see if your client would agree with that.

Well, if a client comes with such a request afterwards and didn’t discuss copyright, they should have a more then valid reason. (being a competitor who outsourced isn’t a good reason to me)...

Thanks DS,

Yes the client has asked me to remove it from my portfolio. I don’t want to make it a big story with him, but I got a bit pissed off by the way he asked.

Anyway, it is not a big brand, just a full website for a local company. Thing is, he just never mentioned that, and yes the guy basically outsourced it to me.

I was just wondering if there was any legal requirements regarding that?

Basically, it’s not even the client I dealt with, Let’s say a wannabe wed design “company” outsourced it to me, and I did 100% of the work, but he says it’s his property and I don’t have the right to display it in my portfolio…I just never heard that before.

Anyways, if a client asked you that at the beginning of a project, how would you go about it, charge more?

Well, if a client comes with such a request afterwards and didn’t discuss copyright, they should have a more then valid reason. (being a competitor who outsourced isn’t a good reason to me)...

Cheers Fonz, so I should tell him to bugger off?

Basically, it’s not even the client I dealt with, Let’s say a wannabe wed design “company” outsourced it to me, and I did 100% of the work, but he says it’s his property and I don’t have the right to display it in my portfolio…I just never heard that before.

Anyways, if a client asked you that at the beginning of a project, how would you go about it, charge more?

Well, if a client comes with such a request afterwards and didn’t discuss copyright, they should have a more then valid reason. (being a competitor who outsourced isn’t a good reason to me)...

Cheers Fonz, so I should tell him to bugger off?

You should tell him by submitting his web site to your portfolio this way his web site have more exposure since Google rang system is working also by sharing links.

But its all up to the copyright agreement, if he have full copyright included your source code then you have to remove it from your portfolio, if not let him jump as much as he want and keep it on your portfolio.

Always when make a job try to connect your self in some way to your work by some kind of agreement with the customer.

But you know there are so many freaking customers out there with strange behave it come with the job . (:

yeh this happens quite often, basically he doesn’t want anyone to know that you actually did the work and is going to take full credit for the work. since it’s his client he can do that unfortunately.

But its all up to the copyright agreement, if he have full copyright included your source code then you have to remove it from your portfolio, if not let him jump as much as he want and keep it on your portfolio.

Thanks for your help guys.

No, nothing was ever mentioned about any copyright going his way, nor did I sign any NDA .

yeh this happens quite often, basically he doesn’t want anyone to know that you actually did the work and is going to take full credit for the work. since it’s his client he can do that unfortunately.

So I am legally obliged to take it out?