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This situation sounds terrible. Were you writing software for your employer? Why would you have told them you were volunteering non-coding assistance to a film
by delinka 10y ago
This situation sounds terrible. Were you writing software for your employer? Why would you have told them you were volunteering non-coding assistance to a film production? Did they honestly think they had the right to require you show them copyrightable works created by other people who were not their employees? Did you truly take those creations and show them to your employer?
This whole situation sounds ludicrous and should never have been required to happen by management in a company whose focus is creating software.
- pfranz 10y agoIt was a large animation studio and I was a guy who monitored their render farm. So they were making content and I would write tools (Python, Perl, and Shell scripts) and did have access to their whole codebase. I told them because there was a box in my contract (I was new to the industry) and the last thing I wanted was to have my friend's short film litigated against. It's weird because I'm not sure what I'd do different. In that case I probably wouldn't tell them, but I often have side projects that might be profitable. Often I'd see artists working on short-films or publishing their own art books and they would sometimes be internal events promoting those things. I'm not sure if there was just some "understanding" I didn't quite get or if tech and art were treated separately.