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Originally Posted by Zombie Master
Actually, I'm pretty close to the 9th Circuit Judge who ruled on this issue (who owns a website) a few years ago. The problem you may have is he owns the company (if I'm reading your post correctly) and the owner of the company owns information, including content and website name.
Yours is a little bit different than the normal situation where someone buys up corporate names and holds those corporations hostage in hopes of getting a little change from them so you may have grounds for recovery based on the work you put into the site.
It's worth discussing this with an attorney, I would think.
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That would depend on who has the rightful claim to copyright.
In reading the guy's post - I can't see why someone that owns something would just "move it somewhere else"... did they recognize that they didn't have a rightful claim to the domain name, thus no claim to website or website content.
But devils advocate - "IF" your claim is only that your ranked the content - you have no claim. If that content was indeed "owed" by the other person - "OWNED" defined as writing a substantial amount of the words [legal dialog doesn't note a specific word count or percentage but would suggest 75% is likely a substantial amount] you really don't have a leg to stand on...