On 21 Oct 2017 8:26 PM, "ToddAndMargo" <toddandma...@zoho.com
<mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 12:57 AM, ToddAndMargo
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On 10/21/2017 12:40 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
If I write a program for a customer who pays my
labor to
write it, who own the program? Me or the customer?
I am a private contractor. What they payed me for
fixing a/the
problem. They don't care how. I was wondering if they
owned
any of the code I wrote to fix the problem. The
customer did
not specifically ask me to write anything.
On 10/21/2017 01:07 AM, Brent Laabs wrote:
This depends on the contract you signed with the customer, and
laws in your local jurisdiction. As such, it's probably a
question more appropriate to ask a lawyer than this list.
There is no contract involved. The customer wants a problem fixed.
He does not want to know how. And he is not commissioning me for
any software. Just a fix.
I can not afford a lawyer.
On 10/21/2017 04:12 AM, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:
You'll need to read up on the laws in your area, but generally contracts
have IP ownership clauses to ensure the employer ends up with it.
Without a contract, it's seems likely there was no such transfer and you
remain the owner.
I am thinking it is the same a hiring a gardener. He develops a tool
to pull weeds while under your hire. He own the tool.