Sammy

I just completed a large WC insurance carrier application that was under development for the last 1 1/2 years.

The owner and I agreed to split 50/50 on any future sales of the application. They will do the marketing as the owner has many contacts in the industry and is quite a salesman. It appears by the end of the year, we have a good chance to sell it to another carrier in which the owner has an equity interest.

I will be doing all the conversion and customization to the appications we sell.

I own the propietary rights to the source code, so they can't sell it to another developer. While I wrote a lot of the software specifically for and paid by my client, a lot of the routines I had developed years ago and they have paid nothing for those, so I insisted on keeping the propietary rights to the software.

This was all agreed upon up front and everyone understands the issue.
After being stung one other time, I got a little smarter the next time.

Gaylen


>Hello All,
>
>My client, who is in the Building Constuction Industry, consulted me
>to develop a Bill Of Quantities System for system for him to use in his company.
>
>This was done to suit his particular needs and was done with a LOT of input from him in terms of ideas about the industry as well as all the features he would need.
>
>Now, after Completion of software and payment made. He proposed we sell it to other companies and that he should have a greater share, having the belief that he owns the software. I think otherwise.
>
>Now my big Question .Who owns the Software?
>NOTE: No aggreement was put in place to that effect since the initial idea was to develop a system for him to use in his company.
>
>Any Help?
>TIA
>