Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ...
by De_Delph on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @10:25AM
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Hi from socialist Netherlands, where the issues around IP and employers are EXACTLY the same as the US.
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Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ...
by pjmlp on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @10:36AM
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Are they enforceable?
I am no lawyer, but I don't expect that under EU work law anything done outside work can be forbidden in the work contract, in any member country.
The only issue I see from law point of view, is if whatever is being done, in terms of private projects, is related to knowledge acquired during the work activities, sometimes under NDA. Here yes, there can be issues.
Now if the projects are done in technology stacks or business domains completely different from what happens at work, then it isn't enforceable.
However I am no lawyer.
Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ...
by lostboys67 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:12AM
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Which of the 52 states is that? Its probably closer to the CA i.e. it has to be related to the employers work not everying.