RE: FN-FORUM Rights of a site

date posted 1st March 2002 10:26

Hello there,

I seem to remember reading an article in the law section of Internet
Works magazine last year which seemed to state that intellectual propert
of the code and database structure remains with the developer - however
the content and front end branding along with the "content" of the
database tends to stay with the client.

Again all this depends on what is stated in the contract... IWKS does
not have much of an online archive but they do have this
http://www.iwks.com/hands_on/legal_copyright.asp page which may help.


Cheers


Andrew



> We've recently turned off a site due to non payment and
> inspite of our offers of good will to clear up the debt the
> client has still not offered anything in return.
> Unfortunately the contract is a bit of rubbish drawn up by a
> complete fool and does not say anything about the digital
> rights of the site artwork and files. It does go on about the
> database which is part of the site and the licencing of the
> data and does state clearly that this cannot be altered,
> copied, redistributed etc by the client but nothing about the
> appearance or interface.
>
> Who has the rights on the files?
> They've approached a third party to host the files and want
> them, I've offered them with a release fee and they are
> contesting that fee. Considering they breached the contract
> by non payment don't I have the rights to tell them to stick
> it? Anybody have any words of advice on this...
>
> Please...
>
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