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Most freelance developers do? This is a work-for-hire situation, not an employment type situation. Works for hire have a different legal basis than works create
by tremon 4y ago
Most freelance developers do? This is a work-for-hire situation, not an employment type situation. Works for hire have a different legal basis than works created as an employee.
- jameshart 4y agoNot a lawyer, but… I don’t believe that’s true. As I understand it ‘work for hire’ is the basis by which work done by an employee creates intellectual property belonging to an employer. When you contract a non employee to produce intellectual property for you it is common to write an explicit ‘work for hire’ agreement that ensures that the work you are paying for is handled on the same basis as work by an employee.
- zztop44 4y agoI’m a freelance developer. My clients pay for a perpetual non-exclusive non-transferable license to the software I write for them. I explain this very clearly to every client, and tell them explicitly that I hope and intend to sell the same software (probably with modifications) to another client down the track. I’ve never had a single client push back on this ever. I could definitely imagine for some companies this arrangement might be a dealbreaker for whatever reason, but I don’t think it’s all that unusual.
- jameshart 4y agoRight, so that is not a ‘work for hire’ agreement. It is an agreement that explicitly ensures they are aware they are not getting your code on a work for hire basis.