You get into the 'work for hire' concept. Say you hire a girl to go gathering nuts in your field in May(a bit early, I agree). So you pay her for the day's work and she says she also wants the nuts. I say, I saw you eating some = that enough - and so on.
As you can see, there are nuances as well as extremes.
What if you ask workers to wear muzzles = zero nuts eaten?
So if you create a 'new thing' while employed, the creation came from your accumulated wisdom coupled with the employees machine shop etc - yet you are usually required to release all rights to the employer = you got paid = done.
Germany has a twist on this, as per this:-
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1cece599-efd4...
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You get into the 'work for hire' concept. Say you hire a girl to go gathering nuts in your field in May(a bit early, I agree). So you pay her for the day's work and she says she also wants the nuts. I say, I saw you eating some = that enough - and so on. As you can see, there are nuances as well as extremes. What if you ask workers to wear muzzles = zero nuts eaten? So if you create a 'new thing' while employed, the creation came from your accumulated wisdom coupled with the employees machine shop etc - yet you are usually required to release all rights to the employer = you got paid = done. Germany has a twist on this, as per this:- https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1cece599-efd4...
The USA and others should follow this - do not bind the mouths of the kine that tread the grain. https://taanstafl.blogspot.com/2005/02/bind-not-mouths.html