[consulting] copyright policies

[Laura Scott]

On Jan 25, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Kevin Amerson wrote:

> I've been on both sides of the fence, and you have  to come to the  
> realization that if you're hired as a contractor to build something  
> for someone else, then they own it

In the US, this is true only if the contract specifically states it's  
a "work for hire." I see some folks do enter into work-for-hire  
contracts, but it's not something we will do.

It seems that this discussion is a bit fuzzy about what is  
intellectual property vs. "knowhow." An absurd case is that you learn  
on a job how to work with Drupal hooks, and your employer owns that  
knowhow and you cannot work with Drupal hooks on any other job. GPL  
or no GPL, that is unenforceable, isn't it?

Laura
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/consulting/attachments/20080125/9a4cd7bf/attachment.htm