23rd April 2011, 05:27 PM
Your context sheets are your copyright (if you are an independent contractor), and so another contractor could not reproduce your context sheets without your permission. Copyright does not cover the ideas, so they are free to read them and summarise them. In Dinoasaur's example they were intending ot reproduce someone's text, hence that would not apply (they could produce a summary or re-written version without it becoming an issue).