True, but if he can prove he created them, he has a copyright on the work just by creating it.

I was thinking the same thing. Always, always, always have a contract in place. I really feel for this guy, but the way this went down, he provided them with his best work on the hope they would then reasonably compensate him.

A contract, negotiated up-front, might have prevented the agency from taking advantage of him.

So the lawyers can now suck the money out?

Even if he blew most of the money he was making on lawyers, what then?

Now he puts everything he's ever owned into suing the company?

That's one of my favorites, and immediately what came to mind when I started reading this story.