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I'm not sure of that, simply because many employment contracts have a term something like "any employee output of value, even in off hours, is the property of t

by awda 12y ago

I'm not sure of that, simply because many employment contracts have a term something like "any employee output of value, even in off hours, is the property of the employer." So even if it was in his spare time, he might not own the IP rights to his creation.

hyp0 12y ago
This may seem like semantics, but I deliberately omitted that case by addressing "IP infringement", and not the contractual issue (of ownership). sigh I guess it's arguable, that the contractual scenario is technically "IP infringement", but I would say it's just a part of it, and not the issue that it turns on. But this argument is not important enough to go into. I could have also addressed the contractual issue, if only in passing, to armour-plate my comment, but it wasn't the point I wanted to make, and thought it would complicate, dilute and confuse it. Also, defensive commenting is not fun. sigh this regularly happens to me online, I wonder if there's any way to prevent it (or accept it, once it happens)? It really bugs me. I may be seeing it from my own point of view too exclusively... Any suggestions?