UK dev loses ownership claim on forensic software he said he wrote in spare time and licensed to employer
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A British developer has lost his fight to claim ownership over software he wrote while working for digital forensics firm MD5.
Your work is your work, until someone can make money with it
caveat developer
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A British developer has lost his fight to claim ownership over software he wrote while working for digital forensics firm MD5.
Your work is your work, until someone can make money with it
caveat developer
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The software is used mostly by police forces, and allows investigators to extract files from a seized hard drive and view them in a virtual machine, thereby avoiding altering any evidence on the drive.
This is one of those scenarios where I really have to question the ethics of what we do in the software/IT industry. Shouldn't someone tell the police they can just mount the hard drive as read only? Actually shouldn't they have IT specialized forensics investigators who know that?
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A British developer has lost his fight to claim ownership over software he wrote while working for digital forensics firm MD5.
Your work is your work, until someone can make money with it
caveat developer
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Although the judge noted that none of the contracts had been put together by lawyers, leaving dangerous ambiguities that ultimately led to the lawsuit,
And here we see the heart of the problem. Yes [Insert Lawyer Jokes Here]; but when you need a lawyer you really need a lawyer.
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A British developer has lost his fight to claim ownership over software he wrote while working for digital forensics firm MD5.
Your work is your work, until someone can make money with it
caveat developer
"While working for" automatically forfeits rights in the EU. Must be a Brexit thing. If you "work for" here, you don't own it. The one that gave you the funds to do so does.
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