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Graphic Design Industry Ethical and Legal Work Practices

Ethical & legal work practises in the design industry

1. In the context of design, share your knowledge on ethical and legal work practises in day-to-day work activities.

· Don't steal.
· Don't copy.
· Don't lie.
· Don't cheat.
· Do NOT work for free!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/47555891/Design-Business-and-Ethics

Protect Your Copyrights

By law, the graphic designer retains the right to his or her work. Owning the rights to your work gives you the right to get paid for additional use of a design and protect it from unwanted changes. Be careful of situations in which a client requests "work-for-hire," as this implies you will not retain the copyright. There are only certain situations in which this is legal.

Always Use a Contract

You may trust your client, and they may trust you, but a good rule of thumb is to always use a contract. Signing a contract should not be seen as an uncomfortable moment in which you are telling the client everything you require and that they can't do. Instead, it should be seen as an agreement that protects both parties. If you are constantly doing small jobs or updates for a particular client, you may want to draft a contract that spells out the terms of this work rather than having one for each project. Larger projects should have a specific contract that details the job to be completed.

http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/thelegalside/tp/legal_tips.htm

2. How many different types of censorship are there?

· information flows - a discussion of blasphemy, pornography, official secrets and other issues.

· Online erotica - how much offensive material is online, is it growing, can it be managed?

· global frameworks - international agreements and national responsibilities in the age of the global information infrastructure.

· Australian legislation - Commonwealth and state/territory legislation, codes of practice, enforcement measures such as hotlines, and major government/industry initiatives.

· elsewhere - overseas national and international legal frameworks for online censorship.

· agencies - a map of the Australian and overseas government agencies.

· advocacy - making sense of business and community groups.

· texts - selections from the online and offline literature about censorship in cyberspace.

· freedoms - free speech online and related policy challenges in national and international information infrastructures.

· filters, walls and tunnels - mechanisms for controlling reception rather than distribution of content (with an evaluation of filters, age-verification schemes and other content management tools) and for evading national firewalls.

· postal - interdiction of letters and other postal items.

· journalism - censorship of news, in particular newspapers and journals.

· books - censorship of books offers a perspective on the regulation of online content.

· comics - censorship of comics and anime.

· art - censorship of painting, sculpture and other visual arts.

· photos - censorship of photography.

· performance - censorship of theatre and music.

· film - censorship of film and video.

· electronic games - censorship of video, console and networked games.

· radio - censorship of radio.

· television - censorship of radio.

· education - censorship in universities, secondary and junior schools.