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Does Your Employer Own Your Thoughts?

Posted by timothy on from the don't-answer-that-out-loud dept.

MJ writes "Evan Brown has finally lost his 7 year court battle over ownership of thoughts in his brain. Judge Henderson of the 219th District Court in Collin County, Texas granted DSC Communications Corporation, Inc (now Alcatel, USA) a Final Judgement granting DSC ownership of Mr. Brown's idea of a reverse compiler that Mr. Brown claims to have begun formulating twelve years before his employment at DSC and during his off-time while at DSC. Mr. Brown has received media coverage in print, televion and on the Internet: The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law, Wired, Computerworld. This rings similar to previous Slashdot articles on employer/employee IP rights."

8 of 758 comments (clear)

  1. it has to be said... by blue_adept · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    all your thoughts are belong to us!

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    "Is this just useless, or is it expensive as well?"
  2. Re:Sadly, yes... by geomon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The opposite of progress is congress.

    The opposite of Congress is tyranny.

    Read the Federalist Papers and see why this is true.

    Shit on representative democracy long enough and you won't have it.

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    "Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
  3. Re:Help protest this ruling... by Soruk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You've obviously never seen Star Trek II.

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    -- Soruk
  4. Re:Help protest this ruling... by MrBlue+VT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, because obviously a quote should only be attributed to the latest source that reuses it.

  5. Re:Help protest this ruling... by Soruk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You missed the point. The original quoter was not incorrect by attributing it to Khan, contrary to the AC's response. I wasn't stating it should /only/ be attributed to the latest source, just refuting AC's assertion that Khan didn't quote it.

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    -- Soruk
  6. Re:Help protest this ruling... by MrBlue+VT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, I think the person that originally created the quote (Herman Melville) should get the credit, not some hack simply reusing it.

  7. Re:Read this if you've ever had a thought of your by DMUTPeregrine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, true knowlege of what tobacco can do to you is rather recent (education of the gen public started sometime in the 80s) and many people were addicted before this. Now, teenagers, sure, they know, but the older people are already hooked.

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    Not a sentence!
  8. Re:Good thing... by karmatic · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    > id Software lost $2.75 million to record-breaking piracy on the weekend before Doom 3's release. Thanks, guys!

    I'm one of those "weekend pirates". You know what? I went out and bought it today. Some of us just wanted to show off to friends 2 days early.