[LAD] students and copyright

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Sun Aug 2 20:25:26 UTC 2009



Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Sunday 02 August 2009 15:40:33 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>   
>> On the other hand, if a company pays you a regular salary and the job is
>> named "developer", it might include that a copyright will subrogate to
>> the employer, even if there isn't any stipulation saying this. Here I'm
>> not sure.
>>     
>
> It is not bound to the job description "developer" but by the job description 
> "worker" / "employee".
> I repeat: Standard contracts say that _all_ work you do for a company belongs 
> to that company. It doesn't matter whether its some creative or developing or 
> "just" technical thing you do (even fetching garbage falls in there). Standard 
> contracts say, in copyright terms, that you give them exclusive rights to 
> publish and use your works.
>   

Okay, thank you.

> Arnold
>
> PS: The weekends don't feel right without a discussion about licenses and 
> copyrights, do they?

In addition I had a phone call discussion about god and had no time to 
compile some needed stuff.



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