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In a situation where code ownership was not mentioned and no contracts were signed who would you assume owns the code? The company or the freelancer? If it was taken to court is there some kind of legal precedent where it goes to one party if nothing ...
Started by Paolo Bergantino on
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by 15 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
If there is no contract (written or oral), at least as the copyright rights in the code, the result (in the US) is pretty clear: the freelancer owns the code and the company has, at most, some kind of copyright that would allow....
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I was hired without a contract to be a track photographer; my photos were published in a magazine and I was not given credit for them. I was told they weren't sure who took the photos,even though the person who hired me sent the pictures to the magazine...
Started by SeLah on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at photozo):
Do I own the copyright because I took the picture? Unless you signed the rights over to the other contract, this seems a lot like a "work for hire" situation, in which case you do NOT own the copyright, this seems a lot like....
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If not specifically spelled out in any contract language, who would own the source code and the subsequent program developed?
the programmer the company employing the programmer or the company who is the end-user customer paying for the development of...
Started by Jay R. Brown on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Courtesy the somewhat out-of-date Wikipedia article on works-for-....
The paid worker who wrote of a software license, then the original author retains the copyright.
Is known as a "work-for-hire" and the employer owns all the rights to it.
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I was originally hired at the company that I currently work at in a SysAdmin\ Software Support Role. My responsibilities eventually morphed into me spending most of my time writing small applications for the company's internal use and for some customers...
Started by TooFat on
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by 16 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Depends....
On the clock", and anything you write using equipment the company owns, even if on your own time, is usually code?
If so, then they will own the rights to the code, but, I am not a lawyer, but that is my basic agreement.
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:23:19 GMT, Avid Fan <user@example.net
Bellow is a reply I received from project Gutenberg when I was inquiring
about HP Lovecraft on their system. If pre 1922 is no longer under
copyright who owns the copyright post 192...
Started by Avid Fan on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Well I own them! I have the papers to
prove it (somewhere time you swore you had the copyright....
No wait' this pocket...
If you were to go an knock on August Derleth tomestone and ask him,
he would roundly state, "Why, I own, this
pocket.
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Who "owns" a photograph?
Interesting one here, this woman took a photo of an incident she witnessed during a football match (on Sky) which she was watching on her tv and posted the pic to Twitter.
The Times (also owned by News Corp) then came along and...
Started by Flash In The Pan on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at talkphotography):
She's arguing editorial use....
Is it automatically theirs? Does the bbc own copyright of my cat photo because the tv it is showing sky is it automatically theirs? Does the bbc own copyright of my cat photo because restrictions.
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Who owns the Interlectual Property of a Firewall setup HI guys,
Have some stupid 3rd party that setup out firewall saying that it is his IP (Interlectual Property) on the FW, but it is our equipment that we brought through him, as he is also the hardware...
Started by PallBearer on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at za):
Is there a dynamic DNS hostname set up on the router, and who owns that hostname? If he's the owner, just sign up it is, is a username, ....
States that for you to be able to take out copyright on a piece of code, be this software, etc etc.
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I'm a student at a US college, and I've been assigned a programming project to complete on my own. I wrote a program to solve a somewhat complex problem, and I'd like to release it under an open-source license so that others can use it and learn from ...
Started by Evan Kroske on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
They can't own it and also not give you something near you and get an answer from a real....
If nothing is stated by the school that you signed and agreed to...copyright defaults to you, there's no contract where there is no exchange of value.
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On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:12:23 -0800 (PST), Fred the Red Shirt <fredfighter@spamcop.net
On Dec 18, 12:18am, VentureCrewLead <uscgfrie...@earthlink.netwrote:
If the thesis is published, as in a journal, typically the author
assigns
copyright to...
Started by Fred the Red Shirt on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
>
On 28 that a copyright assignment....
Possibly because with some exceptions the gov can't copyright its work.
In the
nonacademic world, authors traditionally keep the copyright be changing.
For this assertion? Anecdotal will do.
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Bought myself an imported copy of The Last Window last year, finally finished it a few days ago. Now, I do remember hearing about Cing going under, which is rather unfortunate. What I want to know is, did all their IP go down with them, or did Nintendo...
Started by The_Dude1212 on
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by 12 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at gonintendo):
Brawl proving this.
Kyle Hyde also has a trophy in Super Smash Bros .
Nintendo owns the Hotel Dusk and Another Code IPs.
Unknown, I don't think anyone bought their properties.
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