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Originally Posted by theducks
Another issue that was part of my former employment agreement:
Use of Employers resources,
even if the work was fully done on the Employees time off.
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Way back in the day, when Steve Wozniak worked at Hewlett-Packard, he created the Apple I at home in his own free time with his own materials. He nonetheless showed it to his bosses and obtained a release stating HP had no (legal) interest in the product.
In some businesses, what you learn on the job can't be applied outside of work.
In that his case, the Society may have provided data or other forms of input not available elsewhere. Or maybe the team used publicly available data. Or resources from their employers of record.
As volunteers the team members were supposed to be offering free support to the Society. The question is how much and what kind of support did the Society provide aside from gathering the team and "branding" the report (if they had approved of it). Ownership of the copyright will depend on that. Absent proof of material support of the effort by the Society the report would seem to be either the property of the tesm members or their employers of record, not the Society.