Does Your Employer Own Your Thoughts?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 3, 2004 @11:12AM 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."

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Re:Good thing... by karmatic · 2004-08-03 15:18 · 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.