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Not the only way. California and Washington have legal protections for employees. IP you create outside working hours, on your own hardware, and wholly unrelate
by rahimnathwani 5y ago
Not the only way. California and Washington have legal protections for employees. IP you create outside working hours, on your own hardware, and wholly unrelated to your job, is your own.
- tingletech 5y agoThe question becomes what is wholly unrelated. If I'm hired to program, some might argue that any code I write is not wholly unrelated to my work.
- rahimnathwani 5y agoRight, but the law is written better than my comment :) https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2011/lab/division-3/2870-2872/2870/ https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2011/lab/division-3/...
- chii 5y agoI think the idea of wholly unrelated cannot be easily avoided, esp. with mega-corps of today that does everything. Imagine if you worked at microsoft - you would not be able to make a game in your off time, because microsoft owns a game studio too. You'd be hard-pressed to find something that is both software, but unrelated to microsoft. The clause ought to be that your off-hours, personal work must not have a direct conflict of interest with your job.