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March 27, 2006
Who Owns Giradi's Work?

Brian MacMillan at Off the Facade raises an interesting question about Joe Girardi's scouting reports; who owns them? Girardi compiled them with the Yankees, so shouldn't New York own those books? Usually, when you do work for a company, your work belongs to that company.

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Posted by David Pinto at 08:58 PM | Management | TrackBack (0)
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Certainly depends on the contract Girardi signed, but, yeah, the standard employee contract says everything you do job related during your employ belongs to the company. 'course, baseball ain't your run-of-the-mill industry, especially considering how often highly compensated, highly valuable "employees" move between competing "companies"!

Posted by: Jason at March 27, 2006 09:31 PM

The Yankees get to keep the reports, but they don't get to keep whatever ends up rattling around in Girardi's brainpan after his employment ends. Experience in interpretation is more valuable than the actual written report.

Posted by: Thom at March 28, 2006 09:35 AM

If Joe does it on his own time, without using company resources, then those reports belong to him.

It's obvious that he recorded those things while the game was in progress, so it belongs to the team. The team could say that those reports are meaningless to them, and will simply throw them out, at which point, Joe can claim them.

Same thing with the Expos materials. It's company property, unless the company sold that property. "Bud, I'll give you 120 million for the Marlins, or 120.001 for the Marlins plus Expos papers".

I'm not a lawyer.

Posted by: tangotiger at March 28, 2006 11:30 AM

The Yanks should get the papers, but Joe should make photocopies for himself. It might not be legally correct, but it's fair.

Posted by: Gary at March 28, 2006 02:57 PM
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