If this topic isn’t appropriate for this forum, please delete – I am not a member of any other group that might be able to answer this question, and since a good bulk of InDesign users are graphic designers, I thought this would be a good place to ask.
One of my clients uses me as an ‘in-house’ designer (even though I’ve never set foot in his office) to design material for many of his own clients. I bill him, he bills them. This is all well and good.
However, this evening, I discovered accidentally that he allowed his wife to use a logo I’d designed, which was not accepted by his client (they chose a different one I proposed), for her own website…without my knowledge or consent, and certainly without paying for it.
I’m willing to let it pass this time, as it’s just his wife, and it’s just a dinky personal art site.
But it raises the question… who owns rejected designs? Does your client have the right to do as he wishes with proposed designs that aren’t used… especially without paying extra for them? I always thought I might be able to sell rejected logos to other clients for a reduced cost, just to recoup my time on them.
Is there an industry standard policy that covers this?
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