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A year or two ago I created a website for a company. Unfortunately, the relationship ended on bad terms when I had to "force" them to pay me the money they owed me.
Now, I'm creating a brochure for my company and wanted to use some of the work I did for that company on my brochure.
I contacted the business owner in an attempt to be courtious and asked if I could use his companies logo and product images on my brochure.
He said no, don't list my company in your brochure.
Out of respect, I won't list use his pictures, but I would like to at least use his companies logo and or written name in my client list section. The work I did for him completes a missing piece in my portfolio and I feel it is important to at least have it listed.
My question: can I legally list his company and or use his logo in my client section since he said not to? I did the work and I feel I should have this right regardless of what he wants.
My original intention was to do a little feature on it with images of his products (his copyright).
My current intention is just to list his company name and or logo amongst others (are logos public domain?).
...the relationship ended on bad terms......He said no, don't list my company in your brochure....
And when the recipients of your brochure who are considering using your services call this guy and ask him for a reference.... do you really think he will say anything helpful?
Forget him. Forget the site. And certainly don't point your prospective customers towards his opinion of you.
I guess for now, I will have to just let it go and erase this job from the record. It sucks not being able to take credit for good work, but I'm not about to expose new potential clients to someone who would be happy to ruin my rep.
