Re: TI-H: Demolition Calc

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Subject: Re: TI-H: Demolition Calc
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:55:10 -0900
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>From: Gabe <gabeman@earthling.net>
>>Grant Stockly wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Question 1.
>>> >> Do you believe that any data stored on company equipment
>>> >> is property of the company, including personal data created
>>> >> or downloaded by the employee using that equipment?
>>> >Yes unless the equipment was given or sold to you. If it is owned by the
>>> >company, whatever is stored on it belongs to the company. If you export
>>> >data to another machine, it is no longer company property.
>>>
>>> Since it was created with company equipment while he was working witht
>the
>>> company it probably is.  I'd have to see his job contract.
>>
>>It was created with his brain, therefore it is his property. Unless it
>>pertains to his work, it is his own.
>
>
>Not in the software industry.  ANYTHING one creates while working for
>a software company, wether it is paid work or if it is 'on ones own time',
>is accessable to the company.  Both parties have a non-exclusive copyright
>to the data, and both are free to develope it further or market it.
>Code that one creates specificly relating to ones job falls under different
>laws.

It all depends on the contract.  I've never seen any US laws towards
software and hardware engineers...

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Re: TI-H: Demolition Calc

From: "David Knaack" <dknaack@geocities.com>