RE: Licensing

[Kevin Wolfskill <kevin.wolfskill@jadesolutions.com>]

Sounds like you need a lawyer to draw up some kind of work contract for all of you.  Are you doing this as a corporation or a Limited Liability Partnership?  You should.  If you don't and someone decides to sue you (for whatever reason), then they can attack your personal assets.  If you are a corp. or LLC, then they can only attack that.  Two friends and I set up a LLC just for these reasons.  In our case, it cost us about $1000 to do this, but we knew a lawyer who was wanting some computer work done, so we bartered.

 

Good Luck!

Kevin Wolfskill
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-----Original Message-----
From: JC [mailto:wheelofgoon@bigpond.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 4:55 AM
To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
Subject: Licensing

This is a little bit more behind the scenes admin work of programming but a group of us are starting to design a piece of software with potential commercial value. Does anyone know how to copyright the idea/bound the group members to a bunch of rules.....

And is that all it takes..... can i just make up a set of rules and get all to sign them and then if anyone decides to take off with the code/idea/whatever, we can legally hold it up against them??????

 

Cheers

JC.