Quoting Narcis Garcia ([email protected]): > El 29/07/17 a les 16:12, Antony Stone ha escrit: > > On Saturday 29 July 2017 at 13:55:54, [email protected] wrote: > > > >> It has come to my attention that some entities are claiming that you, > >> dear Linux Hackers, (1)need to go through some foundation or get some > >> permission from upon high in-order to sue the progenitors of GRSecurity > > > > Example? > > Example already mentioned: > "you are working for a company and as your job duties you are > programming the linux kernel, there is a good chance that you are a work > for hire and thus the company owns said copyrights"
Employees yes, contractors _no_ absent a specific written agreement transferring ownership. Citation: Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid, 490 US 730 (1989). My wife won (representing herself pro-se) a lawsuit brought against her in the 1990s by a New Hampshire firm that refused to pay her for contract programming work but attempted to compel her to turn over the source code she wrote anyway claiming it was a 'work for hire'. All she had to do was cite CCNV v. Reid: The judge was impressed, and he dismissed the case. Plaintiff had used this ploy to cheat numerous prior contract programmers; my wife was the first to ever get paid. (Oh, I hope someone will add [email protected] to the list at http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/MikeeUSA . Oh, and Mikee, falsely claiming to be an attorney from behind a series of fake identities is rather less than impressive.) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
