CompuServe Messages

You say "your data is yours, and yours alone". Ok, I don't dispute that at all. If we (our company) provide you with a storage format that (for instance) provides you with the ability to save significant amounts of data storage space (thus providing you with the ability to store more, or other, data), and also ensure that you have a means to recover your data into more conventional formats, have we nto ensured that (a) you have your data and (b) you've benefited from our product? Does your feeling that your data is "yours and yours alone" give you, or others the right to take work that we did (the design, implementation, marketing and manufacturing of the method) and give it away? If so, why?