Oops - miskeyed.Your advice to him (get it in writing) was correct - he'll probably need to chalk this up to "learning experience".
--paw On Jul 2, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Pat Wilson wrote:
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 isOn 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 workethics question. Today one of our newest Techs at one our High Schoolsask me a copyright question. At his previous job he was asked to redesign the schools web site. It was not in his job description andthey said they would pay him to do the updates. Well he got the job withus and they said they would continue to pay him for hie updates. Wellthey finally hired his replacement at his old job, after 8 months. Theycontacted 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 waspulling 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 offthe main page.The kid is ticked and would like to know his rights as a developer whosedesign is still in use on the site but all credit to him has beenremoved. I am not sure about Copyrights and IP but I think they shouldcompensate him or redisgn the site.Any thoughts on this? I also told him that going forward when asked to do something that is not "other related duties" he should get things inwriting. John Boris Archdiocese of Philadelphia "Remember that light at the end of the tunnel just might be the headlight of an oncoming train." _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussThis list provided by the League of Professional System Administratorshttp://lopsa.org/
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