[bigmack83]

I have looked on the net and was unable to find a place where I could get some questions answered about the website i am making.

Basically me and a few others are in the process of starting our own company, and part of my portion is the website. Well the main owner has decided to kick one of the people out, long story, and has gotten to the point that I am unsure if i want to continue doing business with him. My question is if i decide to stop my working with him where would this leave the website? The site is on a server where I pay the monthly fee to keep it up, but he purchased the domain name under his business name. I have no problem giving him back his domain but the content itself i spent a lot of time creating and designing myself. If I am hosting it can he take claim to the content or would it be classified as being mine? there is some content that does show the name of the company/website even though I designed it. If he owns "my business name" does he still own "mybusinessname.com" content if I designed it?

Currently the business is in the startup stages and even though he own the name to the company (LLP) we have not signed a contract, we all have been willing to put in our own time because the business has not made enough cashflow yet to pay everybody. I am not the partner in the LLP but one of the others that are just trying to help get the business started so we could make enough money to pay ourselves.

Anyways i wasnt sure where I could get some answers for this. I dont exactly have the money yet to get a lawyer at the moment but may need to if I decide not to do business with him. I can walk out of the company anytime since there was no contract but i just wanted to know where the content of the site would be at if he wants to try and take it from me and I built the whole thing myself.

Well any responses either answers or links to help would be greatly appreciated. and because laws are different depending on location, I am based out of Sacramento, Ca in the USA