RE: FN-FORUM: Who would own the copyright on work?

date posted 1st November 2004 23:00


>Thats not quite how I understand it. I asked a similar question on here
>a few months ago and it was decided (with some supporting links, which
>I'm damned if I can find now) that unless otherwise stipulated in a
>contract, the IP of all software written (regardless of whether it was
>commissioned or not) belongs to the programmer/software engineer.

Unless intellectual property is not the same as copyright?

I could be wrong, that is just the way I understood it to work, although I
believe intellectual property and copyright are different but again I am now
lawyer and could be wrong

Damon