[BNM] copyright

[Joe Aliferis]

the main functionality of the app is compiled in flash - into an swf

php serves to get/put data to/from MySQL into XML

we have estimates/quotes and proposals for the original app

Joe


andrew holway wrote:
> Erm..... No contract? quotations? any documentation at all?
> 
> Plus, if its in php and MySQL.. dont they have the source code already?
> 
> I thought you were talking about some kind of compiled java thingy or something.
> 
> On 30/10/2007, Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk> wrote:
>> no contract between us an original local firm
>>
>> paid us a one-off fee to develop web-based solution
>>
>> flash (actionscript)
>> php
>> XML
>> MySQL
>>
>> uses PDF Lib
>> Ghostscript
>>
>> joe
>>
>>
>> andrew holway wrote:
>>> It would depend of the original conditions of sale. I usually
>>> explicitly state if I am selling a license (which can either be
>>> transferable or non transferable) or the IP.
>>>
>>> On 30/10/2007, Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Its been at least a month - we're overdue for a legal question !
>>>>
>>>> A few years ago our company developed a bespoke web-based solution for a
>>>> local firm that used that solution to deliver on a contract with a big
>>>> london .org
>>>>
>>>> Recently the local firm has lost the contract they had to another firm,
>>>> who now ring us and say we have to give them the source code for the
>>>> web-based app we developed. That the london .org owns the intellectual
>>>> copyright to the bespoke app - and , therefore, as they now have the
>>>> contract with the .org, the solution we developed belongs to them.
>>>>
>>>> I said thats not the case. That we own the intellectual copyright to the
>>>> app, since we developed it - and that we had sold a license to the
>>>> original local firm to use it.
>>>>
>>>> Regardless of what the local firm we sold it to said to the .org, it was
>>>> not theirs to sell.
>>>>
>>>> I have suggested to the new firm with the .org contract that either them
>>>> or the .org need to contact us to discuss purchasing a license to use
>>>> the app.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone shed light ?
>>>>
>>>> Joe
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