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		<title>Proprietary rights for custom programming?  Fair?</title>
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				<title><![CDATA[In my previous life a a programm]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[In my previous life a a programmer and consult.&#160; I was programs for the clients who never saw a program before.&#160; Thata being said the program was theirs.&#160; It was in the contract that the rights of the program were to my client not to&#160;me[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[This definitely depends on the c]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[This definitely depends on the contract you have with the programmer.&nbsp; If this is what you want&nbsp;write the contract up for that.&nbsp; However the programmer knows that this will be a very valuable script will probably be likely to charge you alot[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[As a software contractor, I have]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[As a software contractor, I have to agree with Easterner here. Generally, when you write software for someone on a contract basis, they get the rights to the software. That is stated in the contract. That doesn`t stop them from using s]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
It`s not really about what`s f]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
It`s not really about what`s fair, it`s about what you and your developer have agreed on...hopefully in a contract.Legally, hiring a contractor to write a piece of software does not give you any kind of exclusive rights. If you want to ow]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Having been in IT industry for s]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Having been in IT industry for several years, we have always written code at different clients and once the code is deployed into their production boxes, it is compltely owned by the client.&nbsp; Legally we are not allowed to even make a copy of the co]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[The creator of an original work ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The creator of an original work does not relinquishes their copyrights to their work unless they explicitly sign over said ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[ So would it be OK for a designe]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ So would it be OK for a designer to create a custom web template for you, then turn around an use it for all his other clients? 
Legally - you could possibly protect the code in some fashion, but I don`t kn]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Yes, unless it was in their agre]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Yes, unless it was in their agreement not to. I have never reused entire sites worth of code, but I have certainly reused snippets/pieces/chunks of it, borrowed from my past works, placed similar looking buttons on multiple sites, etc.I would think]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[  If you were to buy off-the-she]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[  If you were to buy off-the-shelf software, you would be paying for the product.If you are hiring a developer to create custom software, you`re paying for their time. So would ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[

If you are hiring a develope]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[

If you are hiring a developer to create custom software, you`re paying for their time.Yes, you are paying for their time, AND their knowledge and whatever product/software/concept they come up with. If that ]]></description>
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