I diplomatically decided not to press on, with the embarrassing subject, but clarified all materials were of my own authorship. I assumed most present understood between the lines, what was happening. I had no illusions of any outcome similar to the feelgood movie stories...These are normally politically well connected players :-) As I mentioned in another comment, CTO still with the company.
Those guys probably gave CTO a slap on the back and said "nice one Mark"
Its water-marked.. :D
Punny humans.. but a watermark really would have been a solution.