Mark Hosey

West CEntral Scotland

R&D

You know, engineers and scientists work their backsides off designing and creating new products and services, or improving those already available, some of which are pointless but many of which society depends on or becomes dependent upon to the mutual benefit of all. However, they all work under contract for a fixed wage. Often the contract states that any patentable or copyrightable ideas they may have belong to the company and that they have no right to exploit those ideas themselves without the permission of their employers. How wrong is that? Musicians get royalties on all their creative works but engineers get a basic salary? I think all engineers should get royalties on all the creative products they are involved in designing and bringing to production. Fairs fair! Until then I couldn't give a monkeys about illegal downloads!