Agreed... Sorta. If they don't own IP rights to the code (via some kind of agreement that would have to have been made between IBM and AT+T), how is it they can claim that they are victims here, though. They have to at a minimum imply that they control the rights to the code (via the IP agreement with IBM), so in a manner of speaking they are claiming that it's theirs (to control).
How is it (or am I dumb and reading things wrong) that a single line of code winds up being infringing. Am I infringing if I write 'for (x=1; x 10; x++) {}? It's like sawing I'm infringing if I write... 'The other day I was talking to my 1 year old about my friend Dick. This is what I said. See Dick.' Am I crazy, or simply misguided?
It's a crappy situation that so many of the big guys out there use boiler-plate contracts, whether or not the contract conforms to state law. The big fact of the matter is that you shouldn't sign something you cannot or will not live up to. How much of a bankroll do you have to pay a lawyer to fight for you if you're idea is worth a lot and the company decides it's theirs? Even for a wrong, illegal position, you still will have to fight to be right (see: SCO v IBM)
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Agreed... Sorta. If they don't own IP rights to the code (via some kind of agreement that would have to have been made between IBM and AT+T), how is it they can claim that they are victims here, though. They have to at a minimum imply that they control the rights to the code (via the IP agreement with IBM), so in a manner of speaking they are claiming that it's theirs (to control).
How is it (or am I dumb and reading things wrong) that a single line of code winds up being infringing. Am I infringing if I write 'for (x=1; x 10; x++) {}? It's like sawing I'm infringing if I write... 'The other day I was talking to my 1 year old about my friend Dick. This is what I said. See Dick.' Am I crazy, or simply misguided?
It's a crappy situation that so many of the big guys out there use boiler-plate contracts, whether or not the contract conforms to state law. The big fact of the matter is that you shouldn't sign something you cannot or will not live up to. How much of a bankroll do you have to pay a lawyer to fight for you if you're idea is worth a lot and the company decides it's theirs? Even for a wrong, illegal position, you still will have to fight to be right (see: SCO v IBM)