Out-of-Scope Work Performed Without Contract State
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Out-of-ScopeWorkPerformedWithoutContractState
Definition
State in which an engineer employed by a firm performs substantive professional work — including design elements, funding analyses, or technical studies — that falls outside the formally negotiated scope of work and for which no separate contract exists between the firm and the client, creating ambiguity about ownership of the work product, credit attribution, and the ethical permissibility of the engineer subsequently leveraging that work to obtain independent contracts.
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Definition
State in which an engineer employed by a firm performs substantive professional work — including design elements, funding analyses, or technical studies — that falls outside the formally negotiated scope of work and for which no separate contract exists between the firm and the client, creating ambiguity about ownership of the work product, credit attribution, and the ethical permissibility of the engineer subsequently leveraging that work to obtain independent contracts.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Those aspects of the report that dealt with the elevated storage tank were not part of the scope of work originally negotiated between ABC and Clover City and no contract exists between the city and ABC for the design of the elevated storage tank.
TTL
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rdfs:label "Out-of-Scope Work Performed Without Contract State" ;
rdfs:comment "State in which an engineer employed by a firm performs substantive professional work — including design elements, funding analyses, or technical studies — that falls outside the formally negotiated scope of work and for which no separate contract exists between the firm and the client, creating ambiguity about ownership of the work product, credit attribution, and the ethical permissibility of the engineer subsequently leveraging that work to obtain independent contracts." ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State> .
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Ontology
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Class
Content Hash
db594cbb43b0c114...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
178
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T08:22:42.507572+00:00
First Discovered In Case
178
Generated
2026-03-01T08:22:42.507572+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 178 Extraction