That IP belongs to the school. The product of an employees work while on the company's dime is wholly owned by the employer. This is why Woz feared his tinkering while on HPs payroll (which eventually spawned Apple) belonged to HP. They ultimately said they didnt care and signed rights over to him or something to that effect ... lucky Woz.
One can negotiate terms of employment/contract which involves the transfer of such rights. My current employer will release the product of consulting/professional services work back to the consulting/contract firm. And at times we have also asked that they release the code to the public under various open-source licenses. These terms are part of the original, explicit PS engagement contract. My $0.02. FWIW, this is a life lesson for the student. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:05 PM, John BORIS <jbo...@adphila.org> 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 > they said they would pay him to do the updates. Well he got the job with > us and they said they would continue to pay him for hie updates. Well > they finally hired his replacement at his old job, after 8 months. They > 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 > 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 main page. > > The kid is ticked and would like to know his rights as a developer whose > 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 > do something that is not "other related duties" he should get things in > writing. > > 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/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
