Okay, so I am working a consulting gig for a foreign affiliate of a major international corporation. In the course of this work I use VBA Excel and link it to another ODBC compliant program that does engineering calculations. The VBA Excel can be used to input parameters, extract parameters and do additional calculations, and also present the output in easily digestible tables, charts, graphs, etc. The VBA Excel is not "necessary", however, being that the engineering software ouputs the data in its own formats, but just not as nicely as Excel.
The work I do is done project by project. In the course of this work the other affiliates find out about the VBA work. However, instead of offerring to retain me, they ask the affiliate that I am consulting for to give them a copy of my VBA work so that they can amend the code and do their projects themselves without retaining me, or worse yet, give the code to their own preferred consultant so that he/she can do it.
What to do, since this is considered work for hire, and hence I do not have copyright on the code?
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The work I do is done project by project. In the course of this work the other affiliates find out about the VBA work. However, instead of offerring to retain me, they ask the affiliate that I am consulting for to give them a copy of my VBA work so that they can amend the code and do their projects themselves without retaining me, or worse yet, give the code to their own preferred consultant so that he/she can do it.
What to do, since this is considered work for hire, and hence I do not have copyright on the code?
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