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Old 04-13-2021, 11:31 AM   #13
murraypaul
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It's also abysmal that corporations usually own the copyright and not the programming team.
As someone whose full time job is to write software for a company: No it isn't.
They pay me to do a job, the job is writing software for them, it is a work for hire.
Why would they pay me to produce something that I then own? If I wanted that, I should be an independent developer, and finance my own software development.
If they were paying me to write manuals for the software, would I expect to own the copyright in the manual text? Of course not.
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