At 16:00 20/11/02, Nigel Hamilton wrote:
.... the problem with permanent employment status is there is an implicit assignment of copyright to your employer - it is not so clear cut when contracting - and here is where artistic freedom lies!
Every contract I have ever signed had a statement saying that the work I did for the client was then owned by the client.
The only time a contractor argued this was a perl programmer who explained that he wanted to write OSS perl to help sove the client's problem.
I think it was all sorted out satisfactorily.
Alex
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