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I don't really want to sign that. I'd need a way to make exceptions. Let's say that I'm working on a startup that hasn't become a company yet with someone when
by jackowayed 18y ago
I don't really want to sign that. I'd need a way to make exceptions.
Let's say that I'm working on a startup that hasn't become a company yet with someone when I die. I'm not sure exactly how the IP legalities work, but I assume that he would be able to keep working on it, possibly under the condition that he give some of gains to my heirs.
But if my half of the IP enters into the public domain, my cofounder would lose his cofounder and at least have questions of whether much of the work we had done to that point had to be released.
Plus, I really don't want anyone to have incentive to kill me because they want that great book I wrote or that great piece of proprietary software that I developed and own to enter the public domain.
- lincolnq 18y agoThe "way to make exceptions" is to incorporate your startup and sign an IP agreement with it.
- scott_s 18y agoI think the old fashioned way - a will - can cover it as well.
- jackowayed 18y agoYeah, but what if we haven't gotten there yet? What if it was a side-project that we now know will turn into a startup but hasn't gotten to the stage of incorporation? I may not say, "Oh, yeah, 20 years ago I signed something putting all my IP in the public domain if I die. We should incorporate now just in case something happens to me." I may not remember, especially if I'm hacking 12 hrs/day on the startup.