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I've run in to places that wanted to pull "all your intellectual property belong to us", but I don't really think they really wanted this. I think they just wa
by lowercased 8y ago
I've run in to places that wanted to pull "all your intellectual property belong to us", but I don't really think they really wanted this. I think they just want the right of first refusal. If I developed something illegal, then said "well... my employer owns it technically because I did this during working hours" they definitely would try to wriggle out of that IP.
- scarmig 8y agoHalf the reason for these agreements is because they generally do want all your intellectual property: it means that there's less risk of one of their entrepreneurial employees quitting and starting a competitor, even in an ostensibly unrelated sector.
- lowercased 8y agoI don't think they really want to be legally liable for everything I make outside work, even though they might say that.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoits "related to your job" not everything eg if your in a band at the weekend an say write your countries next Eurovision song that's not theirs
- lowercased 8y ago"Employee agrees that any and all intellectual properties, including, but not limited to, all ideas, concepts, themes, inventions, designs, improvements and discoveries conceived, developed or written by Employee, either individually or jointly in collaboration with others during the term of this Agreement, shall belong to and be the sole and exclusive property of the Company." That's pretty broad. This doesn't even say "relating to your job", just "intellectual properties... conceived, developed or written by Employee... during the term of this Agreement".
- C1sc0cat 8y agoThat sounds like it wouldn't be upheld as to broad even in the worst US state.