Hi Nigel,
My understanding is that if you're working as a contractor, then code you write is yours from the moment it's written under copyright law. You have to explicitly transfer the rights to it AFTER IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN. If you're an employee, then that's different, he company owns you, your family, your life and (by the way) your code <g>.
The contractor bit is why many contracts explicitly deal with the issue of ownership of intellectual property.
Cheers,
Andrew
BTW, bring on the Ashes! WI 10/82, Aus 1/105 Stumps Day 1 in Brisbane!
>I think if it's not stated, then whoever pays you as an employee to write the code will own that code.
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>>So you are effectively working to a contract that states this.
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>>It isn't something that is included in our contracts as a rule, so what happens then?
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>>Kev
If we were to introduce Visual FoxBase+, would we be able to work from the dotNet Prompt?
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