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If you read the letter of many employment agreements, they try to claim anything you create while under their employ is theirs. Do they want your love letters?
by brewdad 3y ago
If you read the letter of many employment agreements, they try to claim anything you create while under their employ is theirs. Do they want your love letters? Not unless you become famous and they think they can make a book out of them. Do they want the code to that side project you’ve been playing around with? Quite possibly.
Can you afford to fight them if they do try to claim it? Maybe if your side project has already taken off.
- caminante 3y ago> they try to claim anything you create while under their employ If written that broadly, that's just sloppy. [0] It benefits both sides to be more clear. There are also nuances to "claim" and what rights the employer may have (e.g. They get a license, but not full copyright.) IANAL, but I have recently read an IP waiver for a mega firm with heavy R&D and while they get their hooks in most job-related creations, they have exclusions for things orthogonal to your job. [0] https://pro.bloomberglaw.com/common-misunderstandings-about-intellectual-property/ https://pro.bloomberglaw.com/common-misunderstandings-about-...