[Hidden-tech] who owns a website?

[Town Websites]

Depends on what arrangements you've made.  Contract should declare who owns
what, but generally once you develop a website for a company, they own it
except as you've specified per contract or where content is owned by someone
else.

 

Many artists I've worked with have stipulated that they retain rights to the
art except for the particular use, sometimes even to the extent that a new
developer couldn't reuse the art without permission (and the artists won't
give copies of source artwork, just the final product).  As a coder, I
generally retain copyright to code except for permission to make ongoing use
just for the purposes of the website (I usually set up contracts explicitly
giving clients the right to their own website if they choose to switch to
another developer or web host,  but not to any other use of my work except
in the context of their website).

 

Charlie

 

 

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[mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Margot
Zalkind
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:12 PM
To: Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
Subject: [Hidden-tech] who owns a website?

 

IF a company wants to change website designers,

 

who wons the rights to the website?

IF it was done for payment

and 

IF the company owns the copyright?

 

Can they change?

Thanks, M

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