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USA Employment Law: Job Search with Moonlighting
I am a Software Developer contractor but I also want to have my own side-hustle business. This side hustle business might contain programming, research or developing new software products. However, it ...
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Do I own the copyright of a source code if I work only part of it as a freelancer
If a group of freelancers work on a project without a contract from the client(this one refuses to pay), who own the copyright of that source code? I know in the US, one who write the code own the ...
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What happens if there is no formal agreement between two app developers
Suppose two people, A and B, developed an ios app together doing equal amounts of work.
Suppose that they don't have any written agreements and never registered a company. A registered himself as an ...
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In software contracts, does "all right, title & interest in & to software" provide more protection than "all ownership right, title & interest in..."?
Seems that the addition of "ownership" here is limiting, but I'm not sure whether it really is or how it is.
If the language "supplier retains all right, title and interest in and to ...
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If a licensee creates a derivative work, do they own the work?
This is a follow up to this question asked on freelanceing SE. The background is, I know some clients want to hire an app developer but want to own everything created. As the developer it would be ...
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Hiring part-time IT contractors who are under an IP assignment clause in their day contract
I plan to engage a contract developer part-time in the UK through his own Ltd. He's currently contracting in the day time for a software company. My project is in a very different area. However, that ...
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Can an employer steal intellectual property?
Say someone wrote some software PRIOR to employment at the company where they currently work.
They presented it to a CEO and three other high level employees of the company. They expressed, what the ...
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Derivative softwares copyrigths from a more generic software
Imagine consultancy C has a generic software for analyzing data S.
Now C has a client C1 and from the software S it derives a software S1 to analyzed some specific data for C1. The overall dependency ...
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Scope and participants in the Oracle Contributor Agreement
Reading the Oracle Contributor Agreement (direct PDF link), there are some points which seem off, at least for me as someone with zero legal knowledge.
The first paragraph defines:
The term “...
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What happens to a license if the licensor sells the rights?
If party A purchases a software license from party B, and party B sells all of its rights relating to the software, what happens to the license party A has? Must the new owner still honer the ...
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If making software for a client, is a EULA necessary even after signing a contract with them?
When making a computer program, what's the difference between having a EULA (end user license agreement) and a contract with the person who's buying it? For example, if you're hired to build custom ...
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If an app doesn't have a licence, can anyone use it in anyway?
Most apps you install on MS Windows get you to agree to their terms of service before using it. If an app doesn't come with any sort of agreement, does anyone who possesses a copy have the right to ...
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Intellectual Property Implicit or Explicit?
In relation to software engineering.
Business A does x work for business B and neither had any sort of design, patent, software license agreement or intellectual property agreement. Simply, a ...
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Open Source Software and Legal Responsibility for Software Content
I'm working with a few folks on updating some serious software for mechanism design. Engineered mechanisms have existed in the world now for a few hundred years or so.
The science here isn't really ...
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