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"As part of your employment agreement, Google most likely owns intellectual property (IP) you create while at the company. Because Google’s business interests a
by mcguire 5y ago
"As part of your employment agreement, Google most likely owns intellectual property (IP) you create while at the company. Because Google’s business interests are so wide and varied, this likely applies to any personal project you have. That includes new development on personal projects you created prior to employment at Google."
So, a "we actually own all your stuff but we might be nice enough to agree to let you keep it" policy?
"The IARC process is only open to full time employees in good standing. The IARC only assigns the copyright in your project upon approval—it does not assign any patent rights or other IP rights Google may own. ... IARC review is a voluntary service Google provides to employees and it is not required either by the employment agreement or local labor laws."
"Enlightened."
- raphlinus 5y agoThis is my interpretation, yes. The language you are quoting is largely legal boilerplate. In practice, how it works out is that (a) if you want to do a game, there's a very good chance (though not a guarantee) the answer is simply "yes", and (b) the questions of who owns what IP are all very clear, and often in favor of the individual. For example, if you go the Apache 2 license, that actually comes with a patent grant as well. In any case, the specific claim I made is that it's more enlightened than the Amazon policy, and I don't think that can really be questioned. Just the fact that large parts of the policy is public is itself relevant here - other discussion threads are arguing whether the posted text is authentic.