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It depends on your employment agreement or contract. Most contracts I have seen say that any IP you develop related to what you're doing at work is the employer
by migf 3y ago
It depends on your employment agreement or contract. Most contracts I have seen say that any IP you develop related to what you're doing at work is the employers.
- adastra22 3y agoIt only depends on your employment agreement in the other direction. Work done for hire is by default owned by your employer under federal law. For salaried employees it doesn't matter if it is done during working hours. The employment agreement can give up this right for things not related to the company's core business, and I usually insist on that in my agreements. But that is not the default behavior.
- Dylan16807 3y agoSurely someone has to ask for it before it's work done "for hire".
- adastra22 3y agoI usually insist that personal and open source work done outside of the product areas I work on are not company owned. Otherwise if I work on financial software at a bank, and then at home I work on defi/blockchain based financial stuff, I could be setting up a liability for me or my users.
- adastra22 3y agoNow I understand what you are saying, and no. For a salaried employee it pretty much covers everything you do that is related to your job, with that “related to your job” being interpreted very loosely, or done with company equipment or on company time.
- Dylan16807 3y agoOkay, well that's a bad way to define those words if very vague relatedness is enough, with no other factors. Work for hire should always be very clear.
- adastra22 3y agoWell that’s what the case law is.