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> which can often stipulate a company's ownership of ALL of your creations while working for them Such laws are generally not lawful in Europe. It certainly is
by herbstein 7y ago
> which can often stipulate a company's ownership of ALL of your creations while working for them
Such laws are generally not lawful in Europe. It certainly isn't here in Denmark, and I imagine it's the same in Sweden
- ourcat 7y agoInteresting. I've had to insist on that clause being removed at a couple of places I've worked. As long as anything I build in my spare time (which I like to do a lot) isn't competitive.
- strictfp 7y agoI'm from Sweden and I've consulted a lawyer regarding a similar clause in my employment contract. That firm suggested that it was enforcable, and more so the closer your "invention" is to the business of your employee. This, however, does not hold if your invention is patentable, since patentable inventions have special protection in Swedish law. This is ironically not applicable to software, since we don't have software patents.