So, what contract are you talking about? There was only an incorporation and shareholder's agreement. This was long after the creation of the project (look at the timeline for yourself) and did not hand over anything to the company. I paid the same money James did for my shares.
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A company doesn't magically get ownership over my open source work from being associated with me and agreeing to sponsor some of my work. Google sponsored the same work, as did others. How exactly does Copperhead magically own years of my open source work James agreed was mine?
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Yep. Your copyright is not assigned to the company just because you've incorporated it.
That *can* happen, but it's not implicit.
That would be like your house belonging to the company just because you founded it. Doesn't make any sense.
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Well, maybe not like your house. Because the code is probably considered business critical, it wouldn't be crazy to have it included *explicitly* for that reason. But it would be explicit.
(Not a lawyer, but started a company, and this was my understanding as I went through it.)
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This is different depending on the laws of the country but for Canada it is understood that an employer owns the IP of an employee unless otherwise noted.
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It should be noted that the copyright of CopperheadOS belongs to Copperhead.
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It would be a ridiculously insane precedent to let employees walk away from companies that employed them, intentionally destroy the product they worked on and then somehow be given licensing/copyrights to the product they worked on while employed.
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Your repeated characterization of someone who was never your employee as "an employee" for the sake of arguing about IP is fraudulent.
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For the 3rd time: prove to me that Daniel wasn't an employee.
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I'm sure whatever Canada's equivalent of the IRS is would love to hear your argument that he was an employee despite the company never filing Canada's equivalent of W-2's...
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They did file a fraudulent one for the final year in which they claimed I was paid far more than I received. They retroactively changed the accounting and shifted money into the final year when I was pushed out. They claimed very little money was withheld too. They made...
... one version of the tax form which at least was honest about the amount of money that I received, and then changed it and rolled in money from previous years and fraudulently claimed that I had been given shareholders advances even though I had never agreed to any such thing.
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And... I already paid taxes on all that income from the early years. Currently addressing this with CRA (our IRS) and will take time for them to investigate and get all this resolved. Accounting was done fraudulently with retroactive changes to avoid taxes, get grants, etc.
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