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Offshore developers and intellectual property

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by johnwc

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Most of the ads from off shore developers state that the end client will own all intellectual property rights. What if the developers re-use code from another clients project on mine. Won't they be involving my company in infringing on the first companies IP rights? The answer is obviously yes if the re-use an entire system. What about if they just re-use some generic sub-routines and modules?

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by manmohan74

John,

Can that be stopped....

Dont assume this exists only in case of offshore, it will exist anywhere and everywhere. How confident are you that you/your friends/coworkers never carried knowledge/module work you have worked on, to your next assignment. Its an inevitable problem we have to live in, its a fact we learn/ improvise on our past acquired skills.

Learning and applying should not/will not hamper what really does infringe is using the same business ideas/ functional ideas.

This debate is endless.. and I am sure their is no right answer for this... I would be keen in following this discussion

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