On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:44 AM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Roan. It's also interesting to learn about that clause.
I agree. I asked whether WMF had something like this http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-August/067223.html
And they do!? very cool.
Is that clause in a publicly accessible document?
I don't think so. The only place I've ever seen that clause is in my own contract. Common sense leads me to believe it appears it other people's contracts too, but I can't be fully certain of that.
In your post, you ask whether the employee owns the copyright on their own work, or whether WMF does. I don't know this for sure, because it's not explicitly mentioned in my contract, but I believe it's owned by the employee/contractor. All the WMF-written code I've seen in the past few years claims to be copyrighted by the author, and the fact that my contract requires me to license my work in a certain way seems to imply I own the copyright on that work, otherwise I wouldn't even have the power to license it.
Roan