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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.
I work for a design and advertising agency and technically, your client owns the artwork and code you create, but most of the time they either don't know or aren't fussed.
Well, you own the copyright, but probably so does the company, and they would have the right to resell. And it also depends on the contract (if any) you signed. Of course, IANAL.
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.
*for them* meaning you are giving the ownership in the process.
This would be considered a "Work for hire"; thus, turning ownership rights over to the company. If you are doing this as a freelance position this might be a different story. However, from the sounds of it you work for them. Also, if you signed *any* paperwork stating that this was a "work for hire" then this would not be considered your code anymore either.
I'm writing software to aid my co-workers. And everything I do there is company owned. For me, that is what it sais in the papers, basicly; "What the employee produces/manufactures or scrap..." (also note this, often missed) "...is in the propery of CompanyX."
A guy I work with and I are building a web application for the Telecom company we work for. I signed a no compete and a contract stating everything I did for them is owned by them, but, I have secured permission to reuse code snippets and functions in my future applications, Most of the time if you just ask the company they could care less what you do so long as you do not sell or redistribute the whole program.