Re: [lopsa-discuss] Some thoughts on Inetleectual Property

[Pat Wilson]

I think your friend is SOL - the copyright probably wasn't his to begin with. In general, unless he signed something that would indicate that this wasn't, it was "work for hire" (whether or not he actually got paid), and so the copyright would rest with the employer. Your advice is

On Jul 2, 2010, at 2:05 PM, John BORIS wrote:

I have a question to pose to the list.

Because of my age (lets just say Woodstock, the original, was a great
18th birthday gift) and my longevity here I get asked a lot of work
ethics question. Today one of our newest Techs at one our High Schools
ask me a copyright question. At his previous job he was asked to
redesign the schools web site. It was not in his job description and

us and they said they would continue to pay him for hie updates. Well

contacted him to work with the new guy to help him out. Which he did.

As to the Web site he told them that he was going to give up the web
site work in a month and since he wasn't compensated for the initials
design work he wanted compensation. If he wasn't compensated he was

the main page.


design is still in use on the site but all credit to him has been
removed. I am not sure about Copyrights and IP but I think they should
compensate him or redisgn the site.

Any thoughts on this? I also told him that going forward when asked to

writing.

John Boris
Archdiocese of Philadelphia

"Remember that light at the end of the tunnel just might be the
headlight of an oncoming train."
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they said they would pay him to do the updates. Well he got the job with they finally hired his replacement at his old job, after 8 months. They pulling his work off the site. Then he did the stupid thing and gave the new guy at his old job the login and password to update the site, which the guy then immediately changed and then yanked his copyright info off The kid is ticked and would like to know his rights as a developer whose do something that is not "other related duties" he should get things in

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