[AccessD] Re: Ownership

Richard,

It depends on the contract.  If you are contracting to produce a specific 
program with source, the you can word the contract so that you retain the 
copyright, but they have rights to modify the source and cannot sell it 
outside of their company.  Or, that they own the copyright at the end of 
teh contract and can do whatever they want with it.  Generally, if you are 
working by the hour, they own it.  But, again, you can word the contract 
however you want to between you and the customer.

Robert

At 12:00 PM 4/13/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:59:43 +0100
>From: "Griffiths, Richard" <R.Griffiths at bury.gov.uk>
>Subject: [AccessD] Ownership
>To: <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
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>Hi
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>Appear to be getting requests for consultancy work - ie writing
>small/medium Access/VB systems.   Does anyone know the ownership
>situation for the UK. Can they (my clients) sell on any system I write?
>Can they demand the source code from me? Or do I have exclusive rights
>to the code and sell on?
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>Thanks in advance
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>
>Richard