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Almost any tech company makes its employees sign agreements guaranteeing the company the rights to any intellectual property they produce while employed. That
by iamdave 18y ago
Almost any tech company makes its employees sign agreements guaranteeing the company the rights to any intellectual property they produce while employed.
That sort of nonsense should be outlawed. It runs COMPLETELY against the grain of free enterprise, as a person who works and toils over a product has to suffer losses when their employer wants to take their property, claim it as business owned and grab the difference?
BULLSHIT
- drusenko 18y agoI certainly don't know what happened in this situation, but there are also quite a few scenarios where the company may be justified. Would it be fair to companies if any employee could create anything they wanted to, on company time, and screw the company over? Would it be fair to the company if the employee could use all of the trade secrets and intimate knowledge of the company's product to build a competitor on his/her own time, and screw the company over? It's obviously not a completely black and white situation.