[BNM] copyright

[Joe Aliferis]

thanks paul

IANAL = I am not a lawyer ?

:-)

joe


paul perrin wrote:
> IANAL but...
> 
> If someone comes to you and says that you owe them something, then it is up
> to them to demonstrate their case. Every bit of paperwork - i's dotted and
> t's crossed... once they have supplied that, then you are in a position to
> consider their claim.
> 
> Once all this info is available then it will be simple to see if they have a
> case, and if so on what they think it is based.
> 
> I wouldn't lift a finger until they do at least that - don't worry about
> digging around in your own paperwork unless and until *you*need* to prove
> something.
> 
> Paul /)/+)
> 
> 
> 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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