Re: Company Invention Disclaimers

Colm MacCarthaigh said on Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:26:14PM +0000:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:01:23PM +0000, Dave O Connor wrote:
> > I wrote the software as part of my work for the company. The company own it.
> > I've mentioned it to them, and they seemed roughly approveful of the idea 
> > (at
> > least, my boss approves, but he's only my boss). My boss wants a nice 
> > document
> > to sign that basically says "Company A disclaims copyright to Software X
> > described here, and Person B (me) claims copyright and ownership)."
> 
> Seems pretty unwise, why would they want to transfer copyright to you?
> And why would you want ownership of that copyright? Surely the company
> should retain ownership of its property (and you might face benefit in
> kind problems with transfer of assets like that).
> 
You're right. I'll probably go for that, so. Thanks.

        - DoC
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