| Alistair 2006-03-08, 7:55 am |
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James J. Gavan wrote:
> Alistair wrote:
>
> Back when I was studying for Chartered Institute of Secretaries. Common
> Law or Corporate Law - and I forget the descriptor - but if you are an
> employee and decide to go off into business on your own you are
> prohibited from s ing his customers, carbon-copying his products or
> services. (I think there was a time period).
That is to some extent still the case. You can be prosecuted for
downloading the CRM (theft) and most places send you on gardening leave
the minute you resign. However, few people realise that legally the
employer can only enforce a small period of notice (one month if paid
monthly, one w if paid wly) and if he tried to enforce the
contracted period of notice then a brief trip to court claiming
'restraint on trade' and 'unable to earn a living' will free the
employee.
>
> Now whatever the specific rules are on the topic I'm referring to, what
> you've stated seems diametrically opposed, as a point of law. "The Law
> is an Ass".
No. There are intellectual rights, copyright, publishing rights . . .
The fact that you get paid to do a job does not mean that the employer
has any rights to the code or design you created. Unless you sign those
rights away (I have done so once but then I didn't want the Inland
Revenue's Computerised Environment for Self-Assement code/design).
>
> Still another aspect of Law, and why my tutorials even covered it I have
> no idea. There was a 'British Citizenship Act' about 1947. If you were
> born in the Auld Sod - Ireland - prior to ....... 1920 (?????) then you
> were AUTOMATICALLY a British citizen, without any paperwork. (Bearing in
> mind births in Ireland were registered under British documentation, just
> as for you and me).
>
> So my dear old Dad, born in Dublin in 1901, left Ireland at about the
> age of 14-16 with his family to settle in the Capital of Ireland -
> Liverpool. Even joined the army in WWI - but too young to go before it
> finished. So then in about 1970 wants to visit his second son, (not me),
> here in Calgary. The bullshit he had to go through to prove he was a
> Brit and get a UK passport. He would have had an easier time if he had
> been in the KGB !
>
> Jimmy
Yeah, we let anybody in nowadays, except for our US cousins. BTW
KGB=FSB now.
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