Re:Developers’ side projects
by cookiecaper on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:45PM
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Yeah, if you work somewhere you can easily get clearance, it's definitely worthwhile to do so. Then you don't have to worry. If you don't, it's probably best not to mention it, because it invites trouble and in the general sense (YMMV), it's not very likely that the company will sue you unless you actually are doing something nefarious.
On this, my last company had a similar clause, but you could just run a project by the HR team and they would clear any ownership of it. I worked at a media company and I was working on a media-related side project (so definitely "related to your employer’s line of work") and they 'released' any rights to it.