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Lars
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Thought I'd ask....
I worked for a large Landscape/Architecture company as a drafter for a spring/summer...I am a fairly good artist, and at one point a Landscape designer I worked with approached me and asked me to draw up an idea for an outdoor fireplace for a property they were working on.
I did on some scrap paper, and they decided they liked enough to throw it in the conceptual drawings that would be presented to the client.
I soon left the company, and a year or so later found out that they actually used the sketches and ideas I had drawn up and built the fireplace. This is a huge outdoor fireplace in a terrace at a very upscale apartment community. I suppose if I had still been working for them, I would have some sort of recognition at the object, a plaque or something stating who it was designed by, etc. but now it angers me that they built this fireplace (it's huge and Mayan-themed, one of a kind) without even asking me or telling me. For all I know, somebody else has also taken credit for it.
I have heard of a 'poor man's copyright' and other things for artists, but can't decide whether to leave this alone or ask this large company that I be recognized for this high profile piece of art. I'll probably just forget about it, but hell, I thought I'd ask since there are always weird things going on these days like people getting money for spilling coffee on themselves and all that crap.
Thanks!
I worked for a large Landscape/Architecture company as a drafter for a spring/summer...I am a fairly good artist, and at one point a Landscape designer I worked with approached me and asked me to draw up an idea for an outdoor fireplace for a property they were working on.
I did on some scrap paper, and they decided they liked enough to throw it in the conceptual drawings that would be presented to the client.
I soon left the company, and a year or so later found out that they actually used the sketches and ideas I had drawn up and built the fireplace. This is a huge outdoor fireplace in a terrace at a very upscale apartment community. I suppose if I had still been working for them, I would have some sort of recognition at the object, a plaque or something stating who it was designed by, etc. but now it angers me that they built this fireplace (it's huge and Mayan-themed, one of a kind) without even asking me or telling me. For all I know, somebody else has also taken credit for it.
I have heard of a 'poor man's copyright' and other things for artists, but can't decide whether to leave this alone or ask this large company that I be recognized for this high profile piece of art. I'll probably just forget about it, but hell, I thought I'd ask since there are always weird things going on these days like people getting money for spilling coffee on themselves and all that crap.
Thanks!