Hey Chad, Interesting little topic. Welp having delt with lawyers before and listening in on our kick ass CFUG group, they had an IP lawyer come in and talk to us about exactly that.
First and foremost Steve is correct. If you have a contract in place with the company it completely depends on what is stipulated in the contracted. However, most contractors whom get a majority of their income from one location ACTUALLY is an employee of that company. This is a little loop hole people forget to tell you. The only way out of this is if you have a PTY LTD company and you contract to them. But thats a whole other ball of yarn which I wont go into right now. Secondly, when I spoke to a laywer about this, there is a condition called moral rights. In other terms I write some kick ass code for the CFUG group, I have MORAL rights to how I see the code is used. If I don't like the way the company is using the code then I can take legal action. Take it from someone whom has dealt with Laywers and fun stuff, BEFORE your "FRIEND" does anything speak to a IP laywer first. Also if you take the concept or code and put into another language its all yours baby...i.e. put it into FLEX. Happy hunting. Jeremy > Hypothetically speaking... > > So you're building this really clever application for this > manufacturing company you work for. The commission for them is to > build a system to help them manage their business. Now you and your > boss have been chatting, saying how cool it would be to build > something that anyone can use. > > The boss, he indicates what he needs for the company, and gives > general opinions on what it should do. You, you're working from home, > building the framework, all the code and defining the functionality. > > Company pays you for 32 hours per week, your putting in 50 to 60, plus > have put a few grand into it in widgets and looking to work through a > few holidays. > > The program is about 12 months from going to market and going through > a framework rebuild in preparation. > > Question: Who owns it? Do you leave the company now and go on the > Dole to finish? > > Chad > who wonders if they'll think he's talking about his situation --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
