IANAL either, but that is consistent with my understanding. In the US, this is called "Work For Hire". Normally authors retain copyright, UNLESS it is work for hire, then the employer retains the copyright. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire
This makes intuitive sense to me. Otherwise, you would need to explicitly license the work to the client otherwise they have no rights to it even though they paid for it. p. On 26/06/2013, at 11:11 AM, Craig Read <[email protected]> wrote: > IANAL, but I have one in the family who specialized in IP and asked him the > question. > > His response was to assume they own everything as you produced the work for > them, unless you verbally agreed otherwise. > > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Sebastian Porto <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi All > > Hopefully someone in the list can clarify this for me. Let's say that you do > contract work for a client but there is never a signed contract, just the > invoices to prove that the work was done. > > Are the IP and the code two different issues? Who owns the IP for this work? > Who owns the code? Morality aside, what will hold in a court of law? > > Thanks > Sebastian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > Craig Read > > @Catharz > https://github.com/Catharz > http://stackoverflow.com/users/158893/catharz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
