Originally Posted by
merlinextraligh
Take your example. If a customer or potential customer asks you to bid on a project, and they have no intent of using your company, and only wish to take your ideas in your response to the RFP to do the project themselves, would you think that was ok?
I know a company pending a lawsuit over exactly that. They designed an office building for a company and that company then took the plans and designs to shop them out to other vendors. It's a Chinese company with its first office in the US, and the people apparently forgot about copyrights (even though it's on the bottom of every page in the design). They can get other vendors, but they need to use their designs or pay an independent architect to make their own design. Oops.