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A must read in this topic. Give perspective on why companies want to own your side projects. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-projects

• andy_ppp 10y ago
  The whole of that has been totally debunked and it's also illegal in many states. I'm a contractor and I've been asked to sign some work I did over to the company I work for; it's very very clear what "The Software" is in the contract that my client was paying for, why make it so complicated? "Your game designer works for a year and invents 7 games. At the end of the year, she sues you, claiming that she owns 4 of them, because those particular games were invented between 5pm and 9am, when she wasn’t on duty." You have the option to specify clearly and record what you paid the games developer for; it's on you as an employer to show this and it's a ridiculous, straw man example. If you cannot prove that the developer did this work solely for you in exchange for salary then maybe you don't deserve to own these games.