Well as some of you know Kris left ThinkComputers, no biggie.  But he started his own site, which I will not mention, but yeah.  Now on this site he was re-posting reviews and articles he wrote for ThinkComputers.  There were a few reasons this made me mad.  For one if there is an exact copy of one of our reviews on another website people may think we copied it off them etc.  Also he has google ads on his website, this means he was making money off those reviews which are owned by ThinkComputers.  Now as Kris stated to me this is the law…

Works Made for Hire.— In the case of a work made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author for purposes of this title, and, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them, owns all of the rights comprised in the copyright.

Now read that carefully, "employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author for purposes of this title".  Now many of you don’t know Kris was paid for his work and also compensated by being able to keep the product he reviewed, which on average was $1000 – $1500 worth of product.  And he told me I was screwing him?  Weird huh?  So according to the law I own the copyright.  If you talk to many site owners out there they either pay the writer or let them keep the product, Kris got both, but yet that was not good enough for him??

Now he has his own site, which he has said the he got sponsors for.  I’m really not sure how he got those sponsors when some of them have turned down other tech sites that do way more traffic than him and look alot better.  Could he have used ThinkComputers as leverage to get products for review?  I think so, but I will never know for sure because he can just deny it. 

As most people have told me "His site will fade away soon enough…".  So I am not really worried about it, all of the old reviews have been taken down.  Just pisses me off the according to him I was screwing him when he got all that free stuff and was being paid.  I’m sure there are alot of people out there that would have loved to get all that free stuff and all they had to do was write a review, and hell you get paid too!