RE: New idea for outsourcing programming

[Bob Crothers <bcrothers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg,

When a contractor/consultant is involved, this is my 
understanding also.  Without anything in writing, the copyright 
belongs to the contractor/consultant who wrote it.

However, for an employee, without a prior agreement, the code 
belongs to the employer/company.  Not the programer.

Most companies won't care to much about little utilities. 
 UNLESS, a competitor is involved.  Then the rules change. 
 However, I would check with the "boss" to clarify their 
position if you are an employee.

Regards,
Bob Crothers
Cornerstone Communications


-----Original Message-----
From:   Greg Thielen [SMTP:gregt@isda.com]
Sent:   Wednesday, April 01, 1998 11:02 AM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: New idea for outsourcing programming

Pete,

I have (somewhere) a copy of the US Supreme Court ruling that 
says that if there
is no written agreement between consultant and client regarding 
copyright that
the code belongs to the author (the consultant).  This dates 
back about 8+ years,
so I don't know if any other ruling has superceded it.



On Wed, 01 Apr 1998 08:14:17 -0500, Pete Massiello wrote:

>David,
>
>  I think you have a good idea.  You might want to be careful 
about
>using code that you created for someone else, and then 
reselling it.  I
>do not know if you are a consultant or a fulltime employee.  In 
either
>case (In the US at least) the code that you write while the 
company is
>paying you to do that, is legally their code.  I dont want to 
burst your
>bubble, just thought you would be interested in that info.
>
>     Good luck.
>
>            Pete
>
>--
>Pete Massiello
>OS Solutions International
>Phone: (203)-744-7854  Ext 11.
>http://www.os-solutions.com
>mailto:pmassiello@os-solutions.com




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Greg Thielen
Magellan Software, Inc.
Home:   gregt@isda.com
Office: gthielen@magsoft.com
        http://www.magsoft.com


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