A short-lived client who frequently broke boundaries ended up terminating our branding project last year. Now, a year later, they are telling me to remove my branding work on my portfolio website. It is unused by them and they never purchased the license or anything. They are claiming it is a conflict of brand. There are no links to their business on my portfolio. I thought portfolio pieces, especially unused concepts, were ok to showcase. It is described as a proposal and concept on my website.

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Interesting! Did your original contract say anything about this, in the case of termination? Anyone can go look at any brand and create alternative branding as a creative exercise, so I don’t immediately see a conflict in your use, as long as it’s framed as an unofficial exploration. Just my two cents since it’s really not my area.

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The job was terminated and they did not purchase a license for the work, however they claimed that it was a conflict and asked me to remove it from my website. Even though I described it as concept work, unused, I removed it to avoid a problem. Even though I know my rights, this was a complicated chick from the beginning and I'm not going to let her haunt me a year later 😭

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