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Originally Posted by spacedog
That's 100% FALSE. You make this shit up or what?
On a work for hire, the person contracting the work owns the rights, not the other way around.
I'd sue the bejesus out of the fucker.
Stop asking gfy.. half of these idiots wouldn't know their ass from their elbow.. Go ask an attorney.
The person paying for the project owns the rights.
When you hire a designer to design your site, do they resell it to everyone else after they deliver it to you?
Some people need a fucking clue!
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Code is covered by copyright law
according to the canadian copyright act (i am canadian so)
"13. (1) Subject to this Act, the author of a work shall be the first owner of the copyright therein. "
and
"(4) The owner of the copyright in any work may assign the right, either wholly or partially, and either generally or subject to limitations relating to territory, medium or sector of the market or other limitations relating to the scope of the assignment, and either for the whole term of the copyright or for any other part thereof, and may grant any interest in the right by licence,
but no assignment or grant is valid unless it is in writing signed by the owner of the right in respect of which the assignment or grant is made, or by the owner?s duly authorized agent. "
the law does grant the employer first right of ownership
"Where the author of a work was in the employment of some other person under a
contract of service or apprenticeship and the work was made in the course of his employment by that person, the person by whom the author was employed shall.
but contract of services (standard employment, with all required payments to government institutions-- UI, CPP , full complience with the employement act) is significantly different from contract for services (outsource contract)