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Item Title: Employer Alert: Take Steps to Protect Rights
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What does the legal battle between two dolls have to do with your company? Lawsuits filed by the makers of the Barbie and Bratz dolls involve intellectual property rights. Mattel Inc. claims it owns Bratz dolls because an ex-employee conceived them while working at its company as a Barbie designer. Whatever the outcome of the litigation, it highlights an important question: Who owns an employee's creative output? The employee or the employer? Here's a quick look at the Barbie-Bratz feud and what employers can learn from it
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