> These are matters of law and when it comes to a court, what is clearly written down matters more than what your assumptions are. Worth pointing out that this

> These are matters of law and when it comes to a court, what is clearly written down matters more than what your assumptions are. Worth pointing out that this is almost exactly false. Courts can and routinely do modify or reject clauses or whole contracts in accordance with what the parties believed they agreed to, or simply what the court believes is fair. The idea that anything written down and signed is legally binding is pure Hollywood. Were Google to take your intellectual property without compensation, that clause (even assuming it applied) would not offer them protection.