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Hello, can anyone give me some pointers on how personal IP rights apply to content found on a company website?
My situation:
The company I work for has a website ( http://rsautospec.com/ ) and employees are permitted to have a section on the website " Staff Resources " that links to personal webpages, hosted on the company site or off. Stipulations are both must have content fits within board acceptance policy, which seems at this point to be related to automotive or mechanical " anything "....the site is about machining services offered for the automotive industry ).
Btw before I go on, I am a shareholder on the board and I was contracted to design and maintain the website for the company ( I have a web design business ). I pushed for inclusion of personal pages, but was a little bit disappointed in not having more leeway in what would be permitted in terms of content. Anyhow, I'm not sure that matters or not for this discussion.
Question 1 :
Can the corporate members ( majority vote ) stipulate what can or cannot be added to the letter? I'm thinking that the policy wishes to root out things like people putting up resumes or obvious content done that would harm image ( xxx, political commentary, religion, etc )?
Question 2 :
Is there any valid point in saying having a personal site hosted off the company server would free up "restrictions" in the above sense?
Question 3 :
Who owns the IP authored by employees in the designated " Staff Resources " , where that content is hosted on the site?
I would think the respective authors ( i.e. employees ). To give some introspective, this issue was really never touched upon in board meetings. Currently, the site lists a copyright notice at the bottom of the employee personal pages ( that are hosted by company server ) which implies that RSAutomotive is the copyright holder:
Example: http://rsautospec.com/FestivaTech/index.htm
The actual Terms of Copyright is what the board adopted from an old personal site I had. But when it was adopted for use, there was no consideration given to personal content on the site.
I say "personal" because none of the employee content so far ( at least from my own work ) was authored while acting in an employee's duty, i.e. being compensated for the authorship. Only my personal pages are up yet, but I expect others to follow suit. We aren't talking large amounts of employees, as it is small company.
Question 4:
Should each employee post their own copyright notice?
Thanks for any advice.
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Hello, can anyone give me some pointers on how personal IP rights apply to content found on a company website?
My situation:
The company I work for has a website ( http://rsautospec.com/ ) and employees are permitted to have a section on the website " Staff Resources " that links to personal webpages, hosted on the company site or off. Stipulations are both must have content fits within board acceptance policy, which seems at this point to be related to automotive or mechanical " anything "....the site is about machining services offered for the automotive industry ).
Btw before I go on, I am a shareholder on the board and I was contracted to design and maintain the website for the company ( I have a web design business ). I pushed for inclusion of personal pages, but was a little bit disappointed in not having more leeway in what would be permitted in terms of content. Anyhow, I'm not sure that matters or not for this discussion.
Question 1 :
Can the corporate members ( majority vote ) stipulate what can or cannot be added to the letter? I'm thinking that the policy wishes to root out things like people putting up resumes or obvious content done that would harm image ( xxx, political commentary, religion, etc )?
Question 2 :
Is there any valid point in saying having a personal site hosted off the company server would free up "restrictions" in the above sense?
Question 3 :
Who owns the IP authored by employees in the designated " Staff Resources " , where that content is hosted on the site?
I would think the respective authors ( i.e. employees ). To give some introspective, this issue was really never touched upon in board meetings. Currently, the site lists a copyright notice at the bottom of the employee personal pages ( that are hosted by company server ) which implies that RSAutomotive is the copyright holder:
Example: http://rsautospec.com/FestivaTech/index.htm
The actual Terms of Copyright is what the board adopted from an old personal site I had. But when it was adopted for use, there was no consideration given to personal content on the site.
I say "personal" because none of the employee content so far ( at least from my own work ) was authored while acting in an employee's duty, i.e. being compensated for the authorship. Only my personal pages are up yet, but I expect others to follow suit. We aren't talking large amounts of employees, as it is small company.
Question 4:
Should each employee post their own copyright notice?
Thanks for any advice.