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In the U.S., many jobs that do not have set hours have clauses like this. For instance, many university jobs, especially in research, stipulate that you are no
by araneae 17y ago
In the U.S., many jobs that do not have set hours have clauses like this. For instance, many university jobs, especially in research, stipulate that you are not allowed to have any other jobs. The reason for this is that because a research position is self-directed, you could conceivably have another full-time job and just run away with the money.
- dantheman 17y agoI don't think that's true at all, if anything they claim rights to all your ip -- and thus have a process to relinquish it. steve wozniak goes to hp and say i invented this computer do you want it, or can I start a company with it. In general it's better to have them sign away their rights to your ip before you start working on it.
- j_baker 17y agoThe difference being that Woz actually wanted HP to take the computer and make it. He helped start Apple when that fell through.
- scottjackson 17y agoI was under the impression Woz didn't realise until after the Apple I was developed that HP might have the rights to it. From iWoz: <quote> Before the partnership agreement was even inked, I realized something and told Steve. Because I worked at HP, I told him, everything I'd designed during the term of my employment contract belonged to HP. Whether that upset Steve or not, I couldn't tell. But it didn't matter to me if he was upset about it. I believed it was my duty to tell HP about what I had designed while working for them. [Later, after getting an order for one hundred Apple Is] I decided I should run the whole thing by HP one more time. I spoke to Pete again. He told me to run it by legal. The legal department ran it by every single division of HP. That process took about two weeks. But HP still wasn't interested, and I received a note from HP's legal department saying they claimed no right to my design. </quote> Oh Merciful Book Industry, please do not smite me for reproducing a few paragraphs from a book.
- j_baker 17y agoI seem to recall him saying that he had intended on giving it to HP in the first place in his interview in Founders at Work. I don't have access to it, and I'm going off of memory, so you're probably right. :-)
- scottjackson 17y agoI stand corrected. Founders at Work, p. 41: <quote> The very first thought in my mind was, "I think I signed a document that everything I design belongs to Hewlett-Packard." Even just on my own time, I thought that they deserved it first. And I wanted Hewlett-Packard to build this. </quote> Good call.
- araneae 17y agoWell, my co-founder is an academic, and his contract says that he is allowed to work 20% of his time as a "consultant" but 80% has to be for the university. IP was not an issue.