Comments on: What steps should a business take to claim legal ownership of work completed by contractors on it’s behalf? http://www.maciowa.com/business/what-steps-should-a-business-take-to-claim-legal-ownership-of-work-completed-by-contractors-on-its-behalf Marketing, Advertisting & Communication Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:41:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jason http://www.maciowa.com/business/what-steps-should-a-business-take-to-claim-legal-ownership-of-work-completed-by-contractors-on-its-behalf/comment-page-1#comment-8628 Jason Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:41:59 +0000 http://www.maciowa.com/business/what-steps-should-a-business-take-to-claim-legal-ownership-of-work-completed-by-contractors-on-its-behalf#comment-8628 Get them sign a form saying that your business has claim, not the owk completed by contractors, help with mine ? http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AllV6ZaYXoXz1HbwTxF8Zx3AFQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20100110082924AAd4jP4<br><b>References : </b><br> Get them sign a form saying that your business has claim, not the owk completed by contractors,
help with mine ? http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AllV6ZaYXoXz1HbwTxF8Zx3AFQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20100110082924AAd4jP4
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]]> By: OldJimmy http://www.maciowa.com/business/what-steps-should-a-business-take-to-claim-legal-ownership-of-work-completed-by-contractors-on-its-behalf/comment-page-1#comment-8627 OldJimmy Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:33:59 +0000 http://www.maciowa.com/business/what-steps-should-a-business-take-to-claim-legal-ownership-of-work-completed-by-contractors-on-its-behalf#comment-8627 You definitely need an intellectual property agreement before the work commences. My understanding is that, in the absence of this, the contractor would own the rights to the work regardless of your payment for the work. Whether or not that is true, it makes sense to have one to remove all doubt. Search using terms like "contract programmer intellectual property agreement" (even if the work/product you are talking about is not computer code, because this industry uses them a lot).<br><b>References : </b><br> You definitely need an intellectual property agreement before the work commences. My understanding is that, in the absence of this, the contractor would own the rights to the work regardless of your payment for the work.

Whether or not that is true, it makes sense to have one to remove all doubt. Search using terms like "contract programmer intellectual property agreement" (even if the work/product you are talking about is not computer code, because this industry uses them a lot).
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