Hey,
This follows a couple of threads on similar moral questions about design issues, but I'm asking this as my firm now does printing...
What happens if someone is fed up with their existing Printer and sends us the pdf the Printer made to be printed by us? Who is the owner of the pdf - the client or the original Printer? If the latter, are we entitled to simply print it or should we recreate our own file, which will turn out to be a virtually exact replica?
Thoughts welcome. Ta.
M@
well, all the material in the pdf is the clients, so it's their's surely?
just like when someone types out a dictation, it's not the stenographer's property, but the author's
Hmm - while assets such as a logo and images will have come from the client, embedded fonts will likely have come from the original Printer. Are we then allowed to include them or do we need to license the fonts oursleves? Is it then viable to license a load of fonts, thus reducing your margin to the point of making a loss?
Gosh - I think we worry about these things too much and should just go ahead and print the bugger(!)
M@
you could ask the client who owned the imbeded fonts.
make a new version
or just print the bugger(!)
:)
I think you know full well who owns the fucker!
Print it anyway...
;)
Normal practice is to get an indemnity from the client saying that what they give you is theirs.
You then print it and if there are problems then they are the clients.