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.