>>13070191>>13070569It's actually not that unusual for companies to lay claim to all intellectual property or creative property you generate if you're working for them in that capacity.
Lot of American companies do it in both capacities. Google, Facebook, etc lay claim to any technological IP generated by their employees even when they're off the clock and even if its their own private project. Enforcement of that is only complicated by the need to prove it was made while they worked for the company in question.
In the UK you got Dyson who are extremely aggressive and manipulative on that front and have sued multiple employees in the past for trying to monetise their own ideas.
American entertainment companies do it all the time with their talent. Anything and everything the talent produces is their property even if they're doing it under a different stage name/persona.
Now I know Cover is Japanese not American but the laws governing intellectual property rights and so on are basically the same.
Generally speaking they only lay claim to these things though if its relevant to their industry/interests. But company culture also plays a part since some consider it to be a dick move.
Which for Cover you'd think this stuff would be.
