>copy rights may be federal , or international, but employment standards are not !
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>So a permanent employee, a temp, a contractor, etc may have different rights in each jurisdiction!

In the US, the federal government (primarly the IRS) has guidelines that specify who is an employee, temp, or contractor. While each state may expand upon the federal law, they cannot go contrary to it.

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>big flap here about news & magazine articles sold to publishers, who then re-used them on the net ! selling one time rights , or even re-publish did NOT giove the publishers exclusive & perpetual rights in all media !

I'm not an attorney, but this looks like a copyright, not an employment issue.
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>I think programmers may be the same, if I write a block of code as part of a project, on your computer, you may have all rights! but if I bring you a disk, then I may have my own rights as well as you having yours!

Not necessarily. If you are my employee and take stuff home and do it on your computer that belongs to me, not you. You are working as an employee. At least, that's the way it works in the US.


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>too messy to call!