The agreement was that the work was voluntary.
If you volunteer to fix my yard, and after a weekend, I tell you thanks but please leave, am I suddenly expected to pay for it?
If you volunteer to fix my yard, and after a weekend, I tell you thanks but please leave, am I suddenly expected to pay for it?
In the absence of a license, I still retain 100% ownership of everything I have produced. There is a reason why every employment agreement requires to sign a special document where the employee transfer IP ownership to the company. In an "informal" setting, Mark is fully entitled to the intellectual ownership of his work (unless he signed a license or a IP transfer). In the current situation - from a pure legal standpoint - Mark could claim ownership of the project.
But none of those things happened!
He said he is going to show up at the booth, and that he will continue working the company.
I'm just not seeing that in the article.
Please look it up:
This was my preconception, based on the hackathons I've attended.
That also doesn't fit well with the article - it seems the author was expecting it to be their company.
In the absence of a prior discussion or agreement, I would expect it to be an equal partnership.