The point would be to do your due diligence and find out what your contract has and to not leave it to chance. I guess I could have clarified that a bit but I expected that people would have been able to infer what I meant. I have no need or desire to over-answer in every situation.
My comment was in reply to gshannon's thought that most companies own all work/ideas. Your reply to my comment made no sense. Thanks for clarifying though. I didn't think you had a point.