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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire Surely work for hire applies?

• claudius 13y ago
  Last time I checked, Norway was not really part of the US, so the law might actually be different…
  • eliasmacpherson 13y ago
    It's not just a US concept. Norway seems to have fairly strong protections on the expression of ideas - i.e. you can't copyright ideas in many cases. I wonder do they have special laws for trade secrets. Opera are going to have difficulty hiring people if they are suing former employees.
    • icebraining 13y ago
      Pretty sure you can't copyright ideas anywhere.
      • homosaur 13y ago
        Be sure to let the US Patent Office know about that.
        • whafro 13y ago
          The USPTO is likely well aware that they have nothing to do with copyright, just the Patents and Trademarks mentioned in their name.
• hga 13y ago
  This is a trade secret case. If he genuinely had trade secrets (the bar for that is pretty high in the US), things like work for hire, non-competes (which are officially allowed in the US outside of California to prevent the "first bite of the apple" of trade secret disclosure), etc. are irrelevant.
  • eliasmacpherson 13y ago
    https://www.aippi.org/download/commitees/215/GR215norway.pdf https://www.aippi.org/download/commitees/215/GR215norway.pdf It seems it's a Norwegian case - they seem to have pretty strict laws for trade secrets laid out in the above pdf. The claim is given in Norwegian Krone.