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Originally Posted by aico
Unless a full release is signed, the person who CREATES the work owns it and holds all copyrights to it.
The same goes for design. If I design a logo, I own that logo until otherwise stated by either a usage rights agreement or full release. This usually determines the price. I have designed many logos in the past that were only allowed to be used for signage, then the client wanted to make t-shirts & hats with the logo, they were required to pay me more for that, because the original price was based on the usage only being for the sign.
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Yes but does even a full release protect your software you contracted out from being slightly modified and then resold?
you'd need ke XPAYS legal team to truly protect contract for hire work wouldnt you?
I'm thinking the only way software you 'think of' would truly be safe is to hire someone inhouse, locally, via PAYROLL as your employee, AND make him sign NDA, non compete? and more papers probably.