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> Even a picture painted would belong to their employer. Taken at face value, it's much worse than that. All the family photos he has taken, that novel on the
by smnrchrds 8y ago
> Even a picture painted would belong to their employer.
Taken at face value, it's much worse than that. All the family photos he has taken, that novel on the back of his mind he wanted to write, that poem he wrote for his wife's birthday, the all belong to the company now. If he made a personal sex tape for his and his wife's enjoyment, the company can request it and sell it online or upload it to PornHub at their sole discretion.
There is no way in hell I would ever sign such a clause, unless there is literally life and death on the line.
- harlanji 8y agoAll coding job offers in California that I’ve received have come with an appendix which invalidates such clauses. It’s a major reason to work in Cali, if I understand correctly. In practice, if I’m working for my salary then I don’t have energy to innovate on my own, beyond conference talk demos that take a few weekends max.
- ralph84 8y agoThis, along with non-competes being unenforceable, is why California will always have the most tech startups.
- pmiller2 8y agoThat’s because it’s against the law in California for a company to claim unrelated IP done on off hours with personal equipment. Don’t think they wouldn’t try it if they could.
- throwaway5r09 8y agoThis made me chuckle. I’ve made a few sexy videos with my wife and just thought of my manager saying, “Welp, that’s ours now.”
- paulgb 8y ago> that novel on the back of his mind he wanted to write No kidding! I used to work at Google and we had an orientation session on the IP policy. I asked if it would apply to a novel and was told that it would (but that they would probably assign the copyright if I asked).
- icelancer 8y agoHow charitable of them to "probably" assign copyright.
- xucheng 8y agoSo the employer can literally claim the copyright for all of the employee’s speeches and DMCA them if so they choose? It seems that this can be argued as a violation to the first amendment.
- yitchelle 8y agoThat puts a different spin to phrase "I will give up my first born for...."