Comments on: Police Blotter: Ex-employee's Yahoo Mail subpoenaed

In this week's installment, Vermont bioscience company sues ex-employee over a personal Web site and demands his Yahoo Mail correspondence.

[OneWithTech]

THE RIGHT TO COPY

FYI

IF THE WEBSITE WAS CREATED IN HIS OWN DOMAIN USING HIS
OWN TIME THE COPY IS TO REMAIN HIS AND NOBODY HAS A
REGISTRATION RIGHT TO IT BUT THE RESPECTIVE OWNER.

ONLY IS IT A EMPLOYER'S COPY WHEN THE EMPLOYEE IS BEING
CONTRACTED TO DO THE COPY OR HAS CREATED THE COPY ON
COMPANY TIME.

SO IF HE DIDN'T CREATE THE SITE OR THE COPY ON COMPANY
TIME THEN THE COMPANY HAS NO RIGHT TO IT.

ARGUE THAT!

~JUSTIN

[rpbell]

Not strictly correct...

...if there was proprietary information, owned by his company, posted to his "private" website.

Think copyright: Would I have the right to post Dan Brown's infamous "DaVinci Code" en toto to my own personal website, even if I was his personal assistant?

If, in fact, the peregrinations of mathematic thought which were posted on the "private" site, were the very thoughts and solutions that he actually submitted within the context of his employment, then his employer ~may~ have the right to the affirmed copyright and ownership.

The fact that he may or may not have done this on "company time" is no defense, especially if it can be shown that the employees of that company were routinely doing related work after hours.

[JFDMit]

Also depends on employment contract

Some employment contracts expressly claim ownership of any innovations, patents, copyrights or other intellectual property that an employee may create during his employment, whether or not they were made using company resources or on company time.

While a company would probably have a hard time claiming ownership of an employee's love poems to his pet goldfish, they would stand a much better chance of getting their hands on stuff that touchs on the same field as the work he is employed to do.

[cpr5150]

What a world it would be

Lets jump ahead as a race as a people on one planet.
How far ahead could would we(the human race) be if we did away intelectual property. What a concept it would be if all the greatminds got together and shared their ideas with one another rather than holding each other back for the Big payoff. We need a new world plan to survive and move forward

[cpr5150]

What a world it would be

Lets jump ahead as a race as a people on one planet.
How far ahead could would we(the human race) be if we did away intelectual property. What a concept it would be if all the greatminds got together and shared their ideas with one another rather than holding each other back for the Big payoff. We need a new world plan to survive and move forward

[ImperialPanda]

pipe dream

In the real world, communism as an economic system does not work. Period.

[R Me]

as soon as

Get together and creativly do what? Figure out how to feed and support yourself and family while getting nothing in return but some, "thanks that works great"? Somehow I dont see that as filling my belly or gas tank.

[anarchyreigns]

Now the whole world can see the site.

Now thanks to their lawsuit the whole world can see his site. The password "protection" on that site is as lame as it gets. All you have to do is X out the box several times and it goes away. Sure, it comes back when you click on a link, but just X it out again. It's a hassle, but it's definitely readable. <rolls eyes>