Fusion 360 for an corporation ? Self employed designer copyrights ?

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Fusion 360 for an corporation ? Self employed designer copyrights ?

Anonymous
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Hello to the fusion 360 community,

 

I love that program of course.

 

Here are facts :

 

I began working for a company as a self contractor, hired verbally at  "20$/h"

 

I provide process engineering advice along with 3D modeling in Fusion 360 for a new machine to built. A client is paying for our work. my job is billed to the client at 95 $/h (all of my hours in a week, 20-40 h).

 

I understand that copyright laws in Canada, are a bit blurry and give me somewhat of a claim on where I've used my talent and ingenuity and skills to advance the project.

 

How ever, what is the right way to do this  when I work on Fusion 360 for a company ?

 

should it be my license or theirs? I use my license the whole time, they don't have one !

 

 

Thank you

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TrippyLighting
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I am not sure what experience you have in design and/or engineering, but at $20/h you are scraping the very bottom of the barrel, particularly for an independent contractor.

If you are a regular employee in any company you usually don't have to find work, but rather work is assigned to you and as much as possible.

As a contractor you'll have to find the work and writing proposals/estimates etc. can take up a substantial amount of time for which you are not getting paid.

You'l also have to provide for your own tools do your own book keeping, accounting, sales etc. There is no one matching a 401K and you'l also have to find individual health care.

 

If the client is being charged $95 for your work, then either you or the client or both of you are getting ripped off!

 

But to your actual question, it usually does not matter who pays for the license of the software you are working with, whether it be you, or your client - the company that you are paid by in this case -  as long as it's being paid for.

 

Intellectual property rights or copy rights are a different thing.

 

 

 


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kb9ydn
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To me it would be preferable to have my own license for Fusion.  This way if I ever change employers I can take it with me.  This opens up the possibility of working for clients that need some project work done but can't justify maintaining their own software licenses (although Fusion is so cheap it's almost a non-issue).

 

And as @TrippyLighting said, if you're employer is making 3x what you're making for your work, something is very wrong.  Any time I've ever worked for a contract agency; they generally get 25-30% of the charged rate.  So at $95/hr charged rate you should be getting $65/hr or better.

 

 

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Anonymous
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Thank you

 

This is not an agency selling my employment to a firm.

 

It's a business hiring me to work on an invention...

 

They charge their client 95 $/h, which is a big company.

 

I heard from friends that are engineer that a overhead of 2.5 to 3 is more of a range.

 

In that case, my boss is cheap I guess.

 

We did not sign anything ! So I'm wondering if I'll be able to claim a moral right on my creations.

 

 

 

 

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kb9ydn
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@Anonymous wrote:

Thank you

 

This is not an agency selling my employment to a firm.

 

It's a business hiring me to work on an invention...

 

They charge their client 95 $/h, which is a big company.

 

I heard from friends that are engineer that a overhead of 2.5 to 3 is more of a range.

 

In that case, my boss is cheap I guess. 

 


 

 

This is a situation I'm not familiar with then.  If the client is getting other services beyond your design work then it might be completely reasonable.

 

However...

 

 


@Anonymous wrote:

 

We did not sign anything ! So I'm wondering if I'll be able to claim a moral right on my creations. 


 

 

This sounds really suspicious.  The law as far as I know doesn't have anything to do with moral claims, only legal claims.  If there is nothing in writing, then there is no legal claim.

 

I suppose a direct answer to the question would be:  You can make any sort of moral claim you want but it will not be legally enforceable.

 

EDIT:  I just wanted to clarify, the part about not having any signed paperwork is what sounds suspicious.

 

 

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