Many US employers have employment agreements in which they claim default ownership of business-related intellectual property that their employees create, such a

Many US employers have employment agreements in which they claim default ownership of business-related intellectual property that their employees create, such as software, even when it is written on the employee's own time. Every tech company I have worked for has had one of these clauses. I think this is what the authors are (somewhat clumsily) alluding to. Here's some more information (it's not an ideal source, but I wasn't able to find a better one; maybe someone else will): http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/opinion/my-ideas-my-bosss-property.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/opinion/my-ideas-my-bosss-...