It isn't vague at all, cerberusti is exactly correct and the AC is a maroon.

"Work for hire" means employee. It doesn't matter what you want it to mean; look up the legal precedents. Contractors are exactly what is _not_ "work for hire," it is business to business contracted work. Basically, the opposite of "work for hire."

There is no ambiguity; you have to have an express assignment of copyright for it to transfer. The contractor owns all their own IP. What the client gets is an implied unrestricted license. That gives them certain rights; you can't stop them from using what you made, because they paid you to make it, but that isn't the same as granting copyright. And a copyright assignment that is buried in the contract is actually not enforceable. You have to have a separate document that is only the copyright transfer. You have to have a signature that is just for the copyright, or else it is not expressly agreed to, it is just an unenforceable extra condition. The copyright assignment can require another document to have been signed in order to take effect, though. So that is how it is done, and that is why there is more than one thing to sign when you have a lawyer do this stuff for you.

The funny part, yeah, consulting contracts often do claim to state the ownership, but that isn't a valid place for it, and the contractor actually still owns that code. It doesn't come up very often, though, because if you try to use that to screw somebody over, you'll be engaging in an unfair business practice and that will preclude you from bringing an otherwise-valid lawsuit regarding the matter.

The easy way to remember it if you don't want to learn the details, the copyright designation is based on who the legal employer is, not who paid for the work. Paying for the work just means you have to be allowed to use the thing that was made for you. If you want to also own the copyright, you're buying that separately the same as if it was made for somebody else.

Just wiki "work for hire" before trying to get pedantic and "stepping in it."

But in the article, as an employee there is no way for him to end up with copyright. Even if it was done at home, since it is clearly related to his work, they own it.

My advice for him, if you're not ready to be a contractor, and you're not ready to start your own company, just write these ideas down in a notebook. You're not in the right situation to be writing speculative for-profit apps that take advantage of your employer's platform, because you're also writing those for your employer. If your company actually wants you to do this, they'll give you the documentation you need, but make sure you're really well trusted by management. If you're just a regular Jr developer, don't even ask. Just write your ideas down so that you can think about them more later, and learn about which still look good later.

$30 or so? I can easily drive to SF from LA on ¾ of a tank, which would be about 30 bucks. Why pay more than that? I get parking in SF might be terrible and costly, but depending on whom you are visiting driving is really the way to go.

This is hilariously dishonest.

Conventional taxis don't have to go out of business - that's a strawman/misnomer. Why don't they provide their own apps to provide service to riders? Oh, right. Uber is doing what taxi services refuse to in a lot of instances. Uber isn't the problem here, but old outdated legislation is.

Taxi services don't operate 24/7 with 100% coverage, that is and never can be the case anywhere. Meanwhile, uber is opening up to other competition and enabling better coverage than the taxi services themselves provide.

here in OZ they are pushing the boundaries of what is legal for "taxi" services, so I would be very surprised if that were not the case in other countries/states juristrictions.

I won't say hobbling. I have both the fx-8150 and the fx-8350 and they are both de finally behind on the curve when it comes to technology. Both of these processors where gifted to me by a friend who was sick of always being behind on the curve when it comes to AMD. He hopped over to Intel with a couple of i7's last year.

I'm convinced unless something changes an AMD gets on the ball with this release, my current AMD systems will be the last AMD systems I own.

If Google can't even make Lollipop work on its own hardware, how much of an endorsement is that for other manufacturers to put their efforts into Android? Clearly it's not because Google is underfunded.

If Verizon is in fact breaking a contract it has with ESPN then all I can say is that it is a horrible contract.

I don't watch TV, haven't for more years than I can remember, I don't care for commercials and I don't care for the content. I have 0 (zero) interest in watching any sports on TV whatsoever, never had any interest in watching sports, never will have any interest in watching sports.

Just saying, forcing somebody like me to sign up for a service that provides sports information as part of the package is a 100% way to have me avoid that service.

Google Streams of piss ......

How about launching a product and sticking with it for 10 years or more, you fucking clowns?

Nobody in their right mind chooses a Google product as part of their critical infrastructure ..... because Google keeps closing its products down.

You're right that we don't have enough renewable energy yet to make this a useful technology. But hopefully that day is coming.

Re synthetic diesel, it's like I've always said: screw the "hydrogen economy", hydrogen is cryogenic, low-density, and difficult to work with. You'd be better off joining those hydrogens to some nice stable carbon atoms to create a storable, pumpable, relatively safe room-temperature liquid fuel.

Is it more efficient than just using the electricity to charge up batteries in an electric car for example?

Maybe, maybe not, but I guarantee you it has a higher energy density than batteries, which is super important for vehicle applications.

You're a fucking moron. How does "access without authorization" warrant a 35 year sentence? Rapists and murderers get less than that. That's the whole problem here. Fuck you.

Seems to me like this is a pretty solid way to identify most of what's wrong with our political structure so that we can fix it.

Unfortunately it will probably just be used as a "how to" manual.

How about California stops growing almonds. Water crisis averted.