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If I were the other members of the team I would be interested in buying you out.
A reasonable number might be $30,000?
You could have earned $60,000 at a normal job, but instead you took a risk and you are now folding your hand - so I wouldn't expect you to get paid more than you would have if you took the safe route.
Also, you are leaving the company ...
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The developer has no problem assigning the code, however, he won't assign it unless we give him the rights to re-use some of what he calls "generic" code.
You need to clarify what "generic" and "reuse" means.
It would seem that the core issue here isn't that the developer has discovered a novel, groundbreaking approach that will generate millions and ...
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Typically they would just want a document admitting in writing that you in fact do own all of the IP and that should their be any IP infringement the penalty / punishment will be on you.
Assuming you wrote all of the code and any open source code you used were released under MIT or some license that allows you to write commercial software based on it ...
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Here is now this type of situation typically rolls out:
The developer provides all available written documentation supporting the proposition that he owns all rights.
If the other party is concerned about any holes, the other party provides additional documents and asks the developer to have them signed by the relevant individuals or entities.
Irrespective ...
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Before this point, he was your good partner and now he wants something which puts your business at risk (at least you see it in that way). I work with programmers, they tend to reuse their code whenever possible. You don't need to be a programmer to know how copy/paste feels good. Also this is the only guarantee he has for his effort (he is not paid for that ...
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As a programmer, we have generic code all the time - its usually the technical glue that holds a program together and allows it to work without actually being a program in itself. Think of a website - the web server is 'generic code', and nothing to do with the website code. The dev might want to take his equivalent of a webserver, or parts thereof, away ...
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Perhaps you could calculate the percentage based on what it would be if you did include vesting from day one. Considering that you left after six months typically you would get nothing because most vesting kicks in after one year. (E.g. 25% after first year and 25% each additional year prorated monthly.) However, you could consider a vesting schedule, e.g. ...
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To a certain extent this depends on the country you are in. The main test that tends to be applied is to ask if it would be "reasonable" for the man on the street to confuse the one brand or product for another.
It may be worth investigating if other companies in other sectors use an icon that is similarly styled. If there are many companies using a ...
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Plain English works fine. I found a template for my Articles of Organization by googling 'sample llc operating agreement filetype:pdf'. This was several years ago (I would show you mine but I can't find my digital copy), and it was a pdf. I re-wrote the entire document in MS Word because the copy and paste functionality produced weird formatting. Anyway, the ...
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The reason you cannot find any is because in most countries (you didn't mention yours, so its hard to tell exactly) it would be considered as practicing law, and requires the provider of such a document to be a lawyer and you to be his client.
So, if you want specialized documents with specific terms and conditions - you'll have to get a lawyer and have him ...
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Steve gives the correct legal answer, but setting that aside, I'd ask you what is your obligation to the guy paying your salary? Obligation has many different aspects, moral, professional even societal expectation. In the West we have duty to render performance. However I have observed other countries where employee loyalty is so scarce it's past the ...
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You can
directly employ
subcontract (so long as clear on IP assignment)
outsource via 3rd party agent eg mechanical turk
The difference is the degree of control. I cannot speak to Indian labor laws but when you typically pay a contractor, they are responsible for their own taxes, insurance etc. On the other hand, if something goes wrong, you can order ...
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Trademarks need to be explicitly registered in each country to be eligible for protection. The cost is dependent on how many countries (and categories) you want to market your services and have the legal recourse against dilution. And that doesn't include policing it either.
participated in contests/incubators/events in different countries where the ...
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Personally i agree with the morals that are in play when it comes to piracy, i worked under the supervision of an I.T administrator at my company, and typically we dealt with a couple of programs that require volume licensing to be purchased. but there were also programs that had a blind eye turned on whether or not the company should invest in licensing for ...
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