Hold on, which is it that he's trying to get, the "copyright" or "credit"? Your original post stated that they "yanked his copyright info off the main page". Are you talking about "Copyright John Smith", or are you talking about "Designed by John Smith"? If it was "Copyright" then that was incorrect in the first place as he has no copyright to the work because it was created while an employee of the company and therefore not his.
If you're talking about a "Designed by" credit, this again is a bit amateurish (no professional site has something like that on it these days), and he should just move on. Every designer I have ever seen takes screen-shots to add to their portfolio, and that's all they get. You don't want to rely on the live site for a portfolio as it's inevitably going to change when the new guy takes over, possibly for the worse. If he needs to be able to prove that he's the one who created it, that's what references are for (and another reason to make sure he leaves on good terms). On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM, John BORIS <jbo...@adphila.org> wrote: >>>> Luke S Crawford <l...@prgmr.com> 07/03/10 2:15 AM >>> > > Luke, > I did tell him at one point that he should try one last time to get > credit for the work. That is the thing I think that is making him > ticked. He wants the credit to use on his resume and the school sort of > took that away. > > The term unethical has been thrown around and I really don't think they > planned this. > > Luke Crawford says>>>>>>>>> > In the kid's place, I'd have focused on this part. "Hey, I put in all > that free time to help you out... can you leave some kind of credit > on the website, so I can more easily use it in my portfolio?" Old > people > like helping young people out with their careers, generally speaking. > > The thing is, when you are young, generally you don't get paid much > in terms of cash, compared to what you will get paid later on. I'd > been working as a computer guy for three years before I got any more > than min. wage, and at first I didn't even get that. when you are at > that scale, you should be focusing on the value of your experience > over what you are getting paid. Sure, I could have worked at > a fast food place and made a little more per hour, maybe, but my > lifetime earnings are much better because I allowed myself to be > 'exploited' as my stepmother put it. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
