Copyright PHP code Question

kenle

Hi all,

I am currently partner with one of my friend to build a company. My role is to build a PHP web application for the them.

My question is, since I am the only one who wrote and developed the code, should the software be my copyright and not the company? Does the company allow to sell or redistribute it?

Any professional here has this experience explain this to me. I am new at this.

Thanks

simply___skewed

It all really depends on the agreement you have with your partner. Some consider anything developped under a company's employment or identity belongs to that company - some may argue that the developer has rights to it - probably not to often the case

If that were the case there'd be a lot more rich developers.

However if you want to keep a copy of whatever you develop - I wont tell anyone - just be sure that you're not sued later on if you plan on using it. -

But in my opinion the copyright would unfortuantely go to the company in corporate circumstances. You were hired or positioned to create something for them.

Sorry.
Cheers

stolzyboy

This is often different case to case, but most of our clients require that when we are done with the development, and they have paid us in full. They own the code/db/etc of which we developed for them. The reason they do that is so they can go to another web developer down the road, that they don't run into legal trouble with the previous developer.