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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 5:06 am
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:23 am
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:17 pm
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 4:40 pm
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Pro-bono, usually the designer chooses who they want to work with (usually a cause they believe in) and often the designer gets some more creative control over the outcome, as well as an "in-kind" donation write off on their taxes (since these are often not-for-profit companies).
Spec-work is when there is no compensation guaranteed, nor even a promise that you get the eventual contract, but you are still asked to do work, and give up rights and ownership of the work done for a company (who often is very much in a position to pay), as a pre-requisite to getting a contract/job.
The really bad part of spec work is - hypothetically, you create a really interesting advertisement for a company on spec. Then the company decides your quote for the business is too expensive. So they hire the cheapest designer, and ask them to re-create your ad, since the hiring company now "owns" the design work you did, without compensation. In a way, you facilitate not only copyright infrigment of your work, but you also give away your own skills and ideas without even the right to put it in your portfolio.
The official position of the AIGA and the GAG is that designers and artists in those organizations, by agreeing to the terms of membership, will not do "spec work"
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 5:28 pm
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