When you’re hiring a web developer for a specific project it’s worth paying close attention to the technology services agreement and how it affects “work made for hire” under the Copyright Act, says Evan Brown of the Info Law Group.
Brown uses a recent case to highlight the importance. In the case, Zenova Corp. v. Mobile Methodology, LLC, the plaintiff Web developer and defendant customer took seven months to come to a deal, after the initial contract was signed by the developer. The contract expressly stated that to be valid, it had to be signed within 30 days of the date the developer signed it, which it was not. When the relationship broke down between the two parties, the plaintiff sued for copyright infringement as the defendant continued to use some of the work done under the contract. The defendant counterclaimed, saying they owned the copyright due to the agreement.
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