[CS-FSLUG] Consulting advice

[Fred A. Miller]

On Friday 01 July 2005 12:02 am, Nathan T. wrote:
> I know know much about US law, but if I were you I would look into the
> California Labour code. There was a case quite a while ago where an
> Apple employee wrote a finder plugin (or program, I don't know Mac OS
> :-p) and made it available as shareware. When Apple heard about it
> they legally challenged him for ownership of the program and got it
> because with the California labour code everything he wrote belonged
> to Apple or something like that, at least that was one of the reasons.

[snip]

That's not Calif. labor law as much as it's the contract that you work under. 
MOST corps. have a contract that they OWN ALL of your work, unless otherwise 
stipulated. It's common in the industry. It also is common in other areas. If 
I do a commercial photo. job, documenting a manufacturing problem or 
advertising, etc., that firm owns ALL of my work......I can't use it, show 
it, etc.......MOST often.

Fred

-- 
Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in 
our software, Never! We do have undocumented added 
features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost 
to you, at this time.