Next message: ed kliman: "Re: lv-ab: Contracts and craftspeople"
Having just caught up with my mail, I was interested to see the discussion
about the designer who gave away a logo designed for another customer. Seems
as though our list is a good resource for intellectual property law, as the
points made were quite accurate concerning the legal end of things! I must
say as a commercial artist, I feel it is *my* duty to inform my customers
about the rights to artwork that they have the option of purchasing, so that
there are no misunderstandings. There are some excellent books I use as
reference on contracts and ethical guidelines, but it doesn't take a book to
know what's right and wrong! Those laws were designed to protect me against
client misuse of my art, not for me to cheat the general public with...
However, to bring this topic back to boats, I have recently had some
excellent help with repairs and woodwork on my sailboat by a couple of other
liveaboards. Everything was verbally communicated and the work has been very
good. But in retrospect, things *could* have gone very wrong, with bad
workmanship, damages, etc. etc., and I really hadn't protected myself in any
legal way.
Would a written contract have been of benefit, or is it more of a hopeful
gesture when it comes to really having recourse for boat work gone wrong? I
have signed a contract with a boat yard before, which covered that yard to
its eye teeth and did little for me as the consumer. And most of the work
I've seen done around the marina is on a much more casual basis, often in
exchange for liquid refreshment!
I want to have my boat painted this fall, and that's a good example of the
type of job which none of us would want to pay for twice...
Thanks for the help!
Elizabeth Whelan
S/V Ookpik
Grampian 26
Norfolk, Virginia
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