legal standing on use of website imagery

[onlinestudio]

If I have created a website design for a client can I show a screenshot of that website on my own site in a portfoio page? Who owns copyright and what are the implications?

[jenstar]

I would imagine that since it's a commissioned piece, the person or company that commissioned it would own the copyright. Unless, of course, you had agreed otherwise. But if you ask them if you can use a screenshot, no rasonable person would turn you down.

[lisaj]

Of course you can. Using a jpeg screenshot in a portfolio is the equivalent of putting the words "IBM" on your CV after working for them. Despite being a registered trademark, you're free for use it to gain recognition of your work and no-one in their right mind would think otherwise. The exceptions to this would be classfied work where releasing the fact that you worked on the project would in some way infringe upon a Confidentialtiy Agreement or The Official Secrets Act, or if you reused the work for another client in some recognisible way.