Jacques Latoison told me he was trying to buy UAC EDP and that the databases were his copyrighted work that UAC and Carlos Jones had unjustly taken from him. He constantly whined that Kevin Satterthwaite was mean to him and enjoyed degrading him in meetings, and was an “idiot” for chosing NetSuite.
Under copyright law, the author of a line of software code is the owner of the copyright in that code. Literally, the person who puts their fingers on the keyboard and types out a line of software code is the “author” and owns the copyright to the code.
A commissioned and copyrightable work will only be considered “work-made-for-hire” owned by the client if a written agreement is signed by both parties that explicitly states that the work is “work-made-for-hire”.
The document that enforces this arrangement is called a custom software agreement. It includes a statement of work that defines the scope of services to be performed, as well as who will own what rights to the resulting product.
When I took over the UAC databases, there was no code.
Reports were taking hours to run; I reduced the execution time to instantaneous.
I created stored procedures and passed variables from the front-end(s) to the SQL backends.
Since there was no “work-made-for-hire” custom software industry standard agreement and nobody has paid for my work, I believe UAC is violating my copyright.
The Hierarchy’s principal, Jacques Latoison, claimed he was operating independently of UAC. He refused to use the subcontractor forms required by UAC, despite Kevin Satterthwaite emailing the approved forms directly to him on February 14, 2019, directing him to use them for hiring subcontractors.
Instead, Latoison drafted and used his own agreement, which excluded UAC from any rights to the software. Latoison has stated that he believed the software had been taken from for approximately twenty years. By disregarding UAC’s required contracting procedures and substituting his own documents, Latoison effectively attempted to establish rights and obligations outside of UAC’s oversight and contractual framework.
The document was a Collaboration Agreement with The Hierarchy.
It was not and NDA.
Latoison never signed it.
Did Kevin accept this from Latoison?
Latoison stated his attorney brother runs the city and all disputes are handled in his brother’s area.
We are not sure we believe that, as Latoison also claims he is the founding member and attorney in his brother’s law firm.
Where is the valid, fully executed NDA?
Not the incomplete Collaboration Agreement.
The actual executed NDA that Hiscox and UAC represented to the court exists.
