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Posted by TimJ on Mon Mar 8 18:06:45 1999

Keyhaven, have a good one:

Their old supplier of web design (www.shiftf7.co.uk) have threatened them with legal action over the ip rights to the javascript used on a couple of sites (http://www.keyhaven.com/home.html and http://www.tankmuseum.co.uk/home.html). Keyhaven paid a lot of money for the design of these sites, but shiftf7 seem to think that the javascript is not included.

The obviously havn't got a leg to stand on, but to even care that much about 30 lines of javascript is daft. i figure "the devil makes work for idle hands", and they are going bust.

Anyway i offered to replace the script with our own code, but how can I prove it's mine as it will look very similar to the shiftf7 stuff. the only differences i can think of introducing are changing the function and variable names. the code is too trivial to put our own mark on the structure of it.

has anyone got any experience in this? on a wider perspective, what rights can people expect to wield over published source code?

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  >Keyhaven, have a good one: >Their old supplier of web design (www.shiftf7.co.uk) have threatened them with legal action over the ip rights to the javascript used on a couple of sites (http://www.keyhaven.com/home.html and http://www.tankmuseum.co.uk/home.html). Keyhaven paid a lot of money for the design of these sites, but shiftf7 seem to think that the javascript is not included. >The obviously havn't got a leg to stand on, but to even care that much about 30 lines of javascript is daft. i figure "the devil makes work for idle hands", and they are going bust. >Anyway i offered to replace the script with our own code, but how can I prove it's mine as it will look very similar to the shiftf7 stuff. the only differences i can think of introducing are changing the function and variable names. the code is too trivial to put our own mark on the structure of it. >has anyone got any experience in this? on a wider perspective, what rights can people expect to wield over published source code?

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