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Thanks very much for those citations. I find it quite telling that three of the States with this protection are California, Washington and North Carolina. Prett

by bugsy 16y ago

Thanks very much for those citations. I find it quite telling that three of the States with this protection are California, Washington and North Carolina. Pretty sure those are the top states in the US for software innovation. I can see how the two are connected too. Employees retain rightful ownership of their work they do at home for themselves. Many of these employees will then leave and found new, innovative creative companies using the things they made on their own dime using their own personal resources. In States where the rights of people to the fruits of their labor are not respected, there is no where near as much innovation, no where near as many new companies and products and employment growth.

sparky 16y ago
I think the high concentration of tech jobs and employee-favorable IP ownership legislation are a great combination for the states you mention. Causality could easily work either way here though. CA, WA, and NC are some of the only states with enough tech companies and tech employees to care about this stuff. Software has a much more favorable cost structure than most industries; employees can easily fully implement their ideas on their own time and their own dime. So it makes sense that these issues have come up enough often enough in the legal system, or tech companies/employees have lobbied hard enough, to fully flesh out the legislation on the matter in these states.