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Tagged with employment copyright
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Can companies use code that I wrote during a coding interview in their products?
Suppose a company's programmers are struggling to code a portion of a complex program. HR orders the questions of an upcoming interview to be replaced with that of the unfinished complex program. It ...
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Are projects produced as pre-conditions for employment interviews sole work or work-for-hire?
It is a somewhat common practice to ask prospective software development employees to produce small-size projects which perform according to certain specifications.
If the spec is not a run-of-the-...
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Confused about Intellectual Property Rights
I have applied for a job as a software developer in the UK and have been sent back a contract which has the following wordage:
You agree that all rights to all material created in the course of
your ...
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Could signing an intellectual property agreement for an algorithm coding job prevent me from working in a similar industry later?
I am a computer coder / algorithm developer and am just getting started in industry where I know I'll have to deal with IP agreements. In particular, the question I'm asking here came about because I ...
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UK Copyright and IPR in the course of employment: Employee vs Worker
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/11:
2)Where a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or a
film, is made by an employee in the course of his employment, his
employer is the ...
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Is an employee liable if he used pirated software at work (small company)? [closed]
So I know someone who suggested a pirated software to use at work and the company honored it.. Now they are being fined by the owner of the software for 10,000 Euros.. The company told him and the ...
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How do I check that my work is not "work made for hire"?
I work as a secondary public school teacher in the US. I teach a fairly niche subject, that has few resources for. I am working on writing my own textbook set for this subject area. It will include a ...
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What does the wording "wholly unconnected with your employment" mean in a UK Employment Contract
Having some trouble understanding some wording in a contract and how it affects the employee. The main passage is
You shall promptly disclose to the Company and to no-one else all copyright works or ...
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Is work done on paid time off “work for hire” in California?
I am curious about this, because my understanding was that unless my employment contract stated to the contrary, work done in my spare time without using company resources is not “work for hire” in ...
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Can I use photos from my current job to promote my own business?
I am self employed but work for a company that does seawalls. I am the foreman and do all the work with the help of one or more of my boss' employees. Can I take a picture of the work I do for him ...
Lucas Blaser
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Concerned about the copyright assignment agreement I signed
I started a new job and signed a copyright agreement. Basically it says "we own everything you make", and then (the last paragraph says) except a few conditions. The part I'm concerned about is
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What if my employer is sued for copyright infringement?
I have a part-time job at a small publishing company located in the United States (California) where I basically upload articles that they have written onto some of their paid subscription websites (...
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Ship of Theseus paradox for developers
Suppose you are employed as a software developer. You work in a business where you code a lot of components. During this period, you also work as a freelancer to earn extra cash.
These freelance jobs ...
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Moral rights / attribution for software written for a company
I understand that software written during a employment/contract with a Company belongs to said Company (e.g. they hold the copyright to software source code and other IP produced during the course of ...
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Do I retain ownership over software written at work, if I have not signed any sort of intellectual property contract?
At my current job, I was hired to be a call center rep and was moved to full-time software development under the same title/pay (I've been programming 8 hours/day for 5 months here). There are no ...
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