Not exact matches
But it subsequently filed an answer and counterclaim in which it
asserted «the right to
claim copyright in any copyrightable materials, electronic files, data, source code and / or anything in addition to the statutory text and numbering in the content of the site (s).»
Normally, when you do a
copyright transfer, you're no longer the holder of the
copyright, and thus can not make a
copyright claim (in other words, can not
assert copyright in the source code; but can still nonetheless make an authorship
claim, as many authors do).
WRT
copyright, you almost certainly can not be hired to write the same code for two companies, since both companies will contradictorily
assert a valid and exclusive
copyright claim to the product.
As a blogger myself, I guess I'm disloyal, because I see AP's point — though I also believe that AP chose the worst possible facts upon which to
assert its
copyright claims.
I doubt they would attempt to
assert copyright ownership over the original pleading itself and do recognize that they may have an independent
claim of
copyright in the database that they've compiled (and any other related summaries, keywords, indexing, etc. that they've added) to the extent that the criteria in CCH v. LSUC is met.