Hi Barry,
I've heard that, for contractors au fait with "enlightened" contract conditions, the product belongs to the "owner" (employer) while the developed code libraries the contractor can take away with him when the project is finished.
anyone confirm that this is common?
Sadly not [well in my experience anyway] especially with government (including local) and larger companies, and universities can be difficult on this front.
A large telecommunication company (who will rename nameless) use to insist in their contracts that they owned all IP and that you could never do any similar work again for any company - the words "restriction of trade" come to mind.
Anyway when it was pointed out that I had done very similar things for many several companies including some of their direct competitors and that experience + knowledge if used could befit them and reduce the cost of the project suddenly it was OK and that clause was removed from the contract ;-)
If IP is an issue you can always say well I could give you a royalty free perpetual licence for X amount but if you want the IP signed over to you you'll need to pay 5x or 10x that amount and usually the client owning the IP doesn't seem so important anymore.
Justin ============================================= Justin Mclean Class Software Phone: (02) 96900201 48 Telopea St Fax: (02) 96900203 Redfern Mobile: 0416 119 342 NSW 2016 =============================================
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