Re: My head is spinning....
First, no that is not the case. I actually went back through the registration process when this all blew up. There was no such indication.
Second, I'm not sure ones copyright can be given away with no payment for services rendered. Even if they claimed sole copyright in the registration agreement, I doubt it would hold up in court. As authors of the ''contract'' the burden is on them to prove that the contract was broken and to prove the contract lawful and valid in the first place. That is the nature of contract law in the US at least.
Agree, but no one is going to tell me that my copyright to my work has been taken away when it clearly has not.
This is very much a different case from the current one. As an employee to a company it is well known and understood that the ideas you create related to the business in which you are involved while employed are property of the company at which you created them.
Ideas or creations off company property are up for debate, but the courts can split hairs. Unless you have a strict contract, there is very little that a company can do to enforce that. They may get lucky in court, they may not. The closer the new idea is to current or future business plans, the less chance the defendant will have.
