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    Default Do I Have to Hand Over a Website I Built to Help a Company Program when I Leave

    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: VA

    I have tried searching and found nothing on this so far. It could be because I do not know the jargon that would bring up similar cases.


    I built a website to help a program I work with at my job. I wasn't asked to build it, I just did it as an asset to my work program at my own expense, on my own time, on my personal computer, at home, and of my own initiative. I am a salaried employee leaving the company soon. When I leave the company, do I have to hand over my code and domain name because it was used for a company program? The company doesn't want to use it, they just don't want me to have it. There is nothing sensitive in it, they just feel it is tied to the company. Or, because I own the domain and the server space, is it my domain to keep?

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    Default Re: Do I Have to Hand Over a Website I Built to Help a Company Program when I Leave

    Why can't you change the contents, to not reflect association with the company?

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    Default Re: Do I Have to Hand Over a Website I Built to Help a Company Program when I Leave

    They likely do not have a claim to the entire site unless you somehow gave it to them. Depending on what is on the site, they could have a right to demand the removal of any or all of the contents of the site. Obviously proprietary information is theirs and would have to be removed. Any work they own a copyright or trademark to would have to be removed.

    They likely have a claim to the domain name

    If it is that important to you, you should run it by a lawyer that deals in IP law. That way they can review the actual site and give you an opinion.

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    Default Re: Do I Have to Hand Over a Website I Built to Help a Company Program when I Leave

    I would think that you would have to had it over to them. You volunteered to do this for them knowing it was going for the company all along. They didn't ask for it but yet you gave it to them. And that's the key right there: You gave it to them.

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    Default Re: Do I Have to Hand Over a Website I Built to Help a Company Program when I Leave

    You would think that because... of what legal authority?

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    Default Re: Do I Have to Hand Over a Website I Built to Help a Company Program when I Leave

    OP, posting this all over the internet isn't going to get you the answer you want. The law is the law; it doesn't change from forum to forum.

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