rabidferret

Some of the cast an crew of Breaking Bad come into my cigar shop to smoke from time to time (I'm in Albuquerque.) Very nice people. Great show.

What's the TV show going to be about? Can you give us any details?

Ooh, sounds interesting. I look forward to watching it.

I've done independent contracting as a software engineer on in off for much of the last decade. Virtually every contract in our field includes an explicit statement that the company hiring you owns any copyright, so this shouldn't have a meaningful impact in our field.

/u/Jonathan_Sparks claimed elsewhere that at the time these characters were created, no it was not something that they were putting in people's contracts. Today I'm sure it must be standard practice, but I don't work in that industry so I can't speak authoritatively.

I don't find it hard to believe that 70 years ago there weren't explicit IP clauses in the contracts, especially since title 17 wouldn't exist for another 35+ years