>I don't know how you could make that argument. The primary issue is the status of the person: contractor vs. employee. Another important issue is the nature of the person's job. If the person is a developer, it most likely makes no difference whether they are using VFP or C++. It would seem to make for an impractical situation.
Yes - i think you've hit it - by jove. A more obvious situation might be an employee is hired as a file clerk, and gets tasked to contribute to an operations manual. Without a waiver, the employee might be granted ownership in the manual.

Another piece of copyright law pertains to ownership of data. An independent contractor, converting data from a legacy format to a newer format, might have claims to the data in the new format.

This one is interesting: A copyright cannot be applied to a formula or equation

In recent years, congress has been limiting the protections of patents. Inventors have been loosing to big corporate interests. Actors are loosing royalty fees for commercials. And, if those sites you offered are any indication, so goes the authors' copyright protections. Go figure: Inovation is becoming a commodity!

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