I wouldn't be too sure about that. At least here in Canada everything job
related you produce while employed belongs to the employer. The "in my own
time" part opens a grey area, but if it is very job related and contains or
is related to information obtained on the job I don't think you've got a
leg to stand on.
As a consultant I had a lawyer draw up an amendment that specifically
retains my rights on anything I produce that is not specifically tied to
the client's competitiveness - most of my work is in administering and
tuning Oracle, Peoplesoft, or related middleware and is therefore generic.
Otherwise everything I create under the contract is automatically property
of the client.
At 04:14 PM 10/25/2003, you wrote:
>is that copyright thing something unique to Australia? I dont think they can
>claim that in the US unless you sign some documents first.
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>Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 4:39 PM
>
>
> > Howard's response is below. Hopefully this makes things clearer for
> > those who are still interested.
> >
> >
> > I worked for Oracle for 4 years, producing my own stuff in my
> > own time, to elaborate on questions that perplexed me, and
> > about which I would often get asked by Oracle course students
> > -because the "official" material either didn't cover it,
> > covered it badly, or just plain mis-informed.
> >
> > Oracle claimed copyright on the lot, so I had to remove the
> > material (Lydian Third is a site which copied the lot first,
> > and despite repeated requests still hasn't removed it).
> >
> > In June this year, I asked for permission to have a website
> > again, offering to have all material and content vetted by
> > anyone Oracle cared to choose for the job, before it went up.
> > They refused. I also asked for permission to stay at home when I wasn't
> > training, so that I could do research on Oracle matters. They
> > refused that too.
> >
> > In August, I therefore resigned. I finished work *for* Oracle
> > on October 6th. I had two weeks of leisure, and now I
> > contract back to Oracle, teaching much as before. Only this
> > time, I get to write my own material, and when I'm not
> > training, I can stay at home and do real research.
> >
> > I was never sacked by Oracle.
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
Wolfgang Breitling
Oracle7, 8, 8i, 9i OCP DBA
Centrex Consulting Corporation
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