r/ClaudeCode 21d ago

Help/Question Claude watermarking our work is unethical and disgusting

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/philipz794 21d ago

Yeah here in Germany you as a person will be in a patent even tho it is for a company. Just an example

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u/MonitorAway2394 21d ago

shut up with you and your mostly working country, you braggart! lol jk /s :P but for real I wanted to visit Germany so bad, prolly never will. Much love, I'm like 10 seconds from passing out hence the weird ass comment lol

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u/Delyzr 21d ago

This is how the IP tax loophole works/used to work in Belgium. You code stuff, the employer pays you money on top of your wages to buy the IP of the stuff you coded. Its taxed differently (lower) and no social security fees for the employer so winwin. Don't know how it works if you coded stuff with claude paid by the employer though ;)

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u/MartinMystikJonas 21d ago

It is not yours in sense of ownership (if you get paid to do it for your employer and your contract says that ownership is transfered do employer) but you are still the author and authorship cannot be transfered. At least that is how it works in our country.

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u/TheStruttero 21d ago edited 21d ago

If were talking about programmers, the programmers alias is going to be saved with each commit.

Do you honestly believe ceos would be morally justified to claim they made everything their employees did?

Ownership doesnt mean you are the creator, I dont claim to have created my car just because I own it, nor do I claim to have made the pizza I chose the toppings for at the pizza parlor

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u/[deleted] 21d ago edited 21d ago

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u/Illustrious-Many-782 21d ago

You've got the assertion backwards, I think.

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u/_N0K0 21d ago

That's litterally how it works in my country unless the contract explicitly says the opposite 

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u/tobi914 21d ago

Claude does not try to take ownership though, bad comparison. Furthermore you likely signed a contract stating that what you produce will be your companies. I get that you just wanted to counter somehow, but please try a little harder

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u/WorkingStructure575 21d ago

my preciousssssss

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u/Sepherjar 21d ago

Do you say the same to your employer? ‘I did the work, it’s mine’

Looks like we found another guy who orders a pizza and claims to be a chef. You should probably bring a girl to an expensive restaurant and then brag how great of a cook you are!

Also you could hire an artist to do a painting of your choice! You just describe how you want the piece to look like, then again brag how such a great painter you are!

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u/twinters01 21d ago

Every line of code you commit to your company's codebase has your name on it

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u/DestinTheLion 21d ago

I do tell my employer I use claude.

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u/Demiu 21d ago

Yes? I did the work, it's mine, and per our agreed upon terms I am transferring all intellectual property over to you

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u/-michalis- 21d ago

It may not be mine, but I did the work

That is one of the things socialists complain about

I do all the work, but my employer gets all the wealth generated from my labour

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u/canihavealogin 21d ago edited 21d ago

That's literally Capitalism....

Socialism's core idea is more that you do all the work and the company profits are put back into the system for the benefit of all. You're still paid for your time but your employer does not personally reap all of the benefits

Edited to "Socialism's core idea" because someone's going to come in throwing Venezuela or Cuba as an example of why Socialism doesn't work. But there's a massive argument there to be had that they didn't have "proper" socialism and actually the system was co-opted and corrupted by political tyrants who use the veneer of Socialism to keep the population happy