Posts Tagged ‘intellectual property’
open source environment exposes fears within companies to loose their intellectual property with os technology?
culturally the open source environment exposes fears within companies to loose their intellectual property if they extend open source technology with industry specific requirements. do you agree or disagree with this argument?why?
If i hire a programmer to make a custom program will i own it?
I know under patent law if the person is an employee of mine then i will own the intellectual property but I’m concerned that since I’m just hiring a freelancer this claim will be harder to fill. Also if I cut costs and hire the freelance programmer in India will that make ownership of the intellectual property less likely?
What is the differences between reusing code and theft of intellectual property?
I am trying to understand how reusing software programming code and theft of intellectual property by copying software code from another programmer without his consent is different.
What does code reuse mean? What does theft of intellectual property mean and how does it fit in with copying code from another programmer?
Is there a time when you can reuse programming code?