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Re:The "Work For Hire" Doctrine Almost Never Works in Softwa... by roberthahn on Monday May 26, 2014 @10:25PM (#7802567)
Your questions are reasonable. I'll add more: What if you're in Canada? England? France?

I suppose my comment was inane, but I hope that any freelancer not working in the States, should they come across this, will stop and do their homework. I'd hate for them to get screwed over. Freelancing is tough enough without factoring in bad contracts.

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Re:The "Work For Hire" Doctrine Almost Never Works in Softwa... by josephlord on Monday May 26, 2014 @10:48PM (#7802618)
I'm actually in England. Copyright is pretty international by treaty (although in some countries like France you can't give away your moral rights but you can still grant licenses I think).

Employment (and what sorts of contracts imply employment) probably do vary much more by jurisdiction and may have tax, holiday, and other legal implications so I do agree homework is required.

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Re:The "Work For Hire" Doctrine Almost Never Works in Softwa... by yangmeyer on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @03:58AM (#7803405)
From my experience freelancing in Germany, the standard approach there is to grant an exclusive, perpetual etc. license to your client for whatever you made under the contract, of which you as the author continue to own the copyright (Urheberrecht).
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