Re: Help with another copyright problem

May I suggest that you consult a copyright attorney.

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> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 93 16:22:46 -0400
> From: lewis[_at_]radonc.unc.edu
> To: Multiple recipients of list <cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org>
> Subject: Help with another copyright problem
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> We're having some problems with an ex-employee programmer who is claiming
> copyright protection for some code that he produced while he was working
> here. He was annoying enough about it (filing suit) that we signed an
> agreement stating that he can have the copyright, as long as we are
> licensed to both modify his code and continue distributing the software
> he developed free of charge. But the problem we're having now is that our
> programmers have been building on and refining and debugging that code, as
> well as incorporating pieces of it in entirely new programs. The ex-employee
> feels that use of any piece of the code he has copyrighted in a new
> program means that the agreement we signed must apply to that new piece
> of software.
Received on Mon Sep 27 1993 - 16:40:40 GMT