-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/2/10 17:05 , John BORIS wrote: > 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.
Even when I was new to this kind of stuff (not *quite* as old as you) I knew to clarify ownership issues beforehand, in writing. (This has resulted in several go-rounds before I would sign.) By default, without anything in writing, his work belongs to the school. That said, if he hasn't been compensated, the school is being unethical. If he has any written records that can be used to prove his claim, he can start by billing them and potentially end in small claims court. (If he doesn't, he can still invoice them but his options are pretty much limited to that.) - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwuiF4ACgkQIn7hlCsL25XZ0gCfT5N/6JGvXLPgGD02QpS0dCkX OGYAn2dtMZk3t2QNYr5xGBKvibI/y5je =YXie -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
