[Product-Developers] how to reconcile copyright/licensing of nearly identical (paid) products?

PythonHack pythonhack at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 14:35:45 UTC 2008


Hi Plonistas
I know you aren't (all) lawyers, but I could use some general guidance 
in the following situation:

Customer A hires me to develop a product that extends some AT Content 
types along with code that uses those content types in a reasonably 
proprietary way.  It also requires new roles that represent different 
'levels' of membership.

Customer B already wants/needs exactly the same roles set up for his/her 
product.

Customer C needs content types that are virtually identical to those 
used by A, used in a slightly different but similar way.

Question: How do you distinguish ownership/copyright and licensing of 
paid work when some of the work is configurations, some is coding, some 
is probably reusable or you think you 'may' be asked to do the same 
thing again at a future date by other customers (or perhaps even his/her 
competitor).  Who owns what?

TIA
Ian





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