Am 06.11.10 11:49, schrieb Jaroslaw Rafa:
I can't see any legal ground for your employer to claim the ownership of whathever you do in your free time. Essentially speaking, such taking the ownership of your private work out from you is simply - theft.
It seems that in anglo-saxon countries like UK, USA, Australia employers are much more free to write whatever they want in the work/employment contracts.
In Europe this is often different - in Germany the situation is that an employer cannot claim automatically all IP done by his employees in their spare time. But you have to offer it to your employer first before you can sell it to someone else. And your employer has to pay for that intellectual property. Many employers lost cases at the labour courts because of this (one of the reasons anglo-saxon companies do not like Germany).
The next thing, in my opinion it is only Darren's choice how to handle the situation, this list is not the place to discuss about legal schemes and situations.
Pascal
