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Copyright and Code: Can a Software Developer Take a Shortcut?

By Richard Stobbe

  By Richard Stobbe Let’s say an employee is hired as a software engineer to develop an application for the employer.  The employee completes the project, and the software program is launched as a commercial product. Copyright is registered in the software, showing the employee as author, and the employer as owner.  So far so good. The employee leaves, and her company launches its own software product, which seems to compete directly with the software that was created for her former e read more

Full post as published by Intellectual Property in Canada (ipblog.ca) on December 02, 2019 (boomark / email).