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Originally Posted by HarryT
But your employer does, I suspect. If they didn't make a profit, you'd be out of a job.
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True but many companies that hire programmers for internal system do not sell that output in anyway. So, copyright would not affect them.
Of course, this would mean the programmer would be able to take the software and sell it to other companies... if this software gives said company a competitive edge they might stand to lose it.
But essentially programmer would be required to sign contracts that dis-allow them from giving/selling any code they produce to an outside party. So, the lack of copyright in this case would only mean that contract law would be protecting the IP.
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