On 11/06/2010 20:10, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > Darren Reed napisal(a): >> >> It is the standard employment contract that you sign that requires you to >> agree to give them ownership of any intellectual property that you might >> develop whilst that contract is being executed (i.e you're employed by >> them), regardless of where or whence you are. > > I think such wording in a contract may be against the law. It surely is > illegal in most European countries, but I don't know how this looks like > where you live... > If it is legal in your country, then I can say only one thing: what a shitty > political system that gives more rights to corporations than to people... :( > Regards, > Jaroslaw Rafa > [email protected]
Simply put so its more understandable... There is no way for a company or individual to be able to determine that the changes you have made to unsaid software 1.1 were not due to knowledge that you have gained while working for so said company and was paid for. I am sure you can agree that you would not want to pay someone to do some work that benefits the company and then have that person give away any advantage that you might have to your competition for free unless you had a say in it for pre-approval. Usually these contracts protect both the company and the people that work for them. -- jhell,v
