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Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ... by golergka on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @03:47PM (#13925534)
> and anybody that tells you that you can't negotiate to create your own contract for a deal should be prosecuted for coercion

As long as you can decide not to sign it, it's a negotiation. Pretty shitty and one-sided negotiation, but still negotiation.

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Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ... by sowbug on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @10:59PM (#13928175)
But the resulting agreement might not be enforceable. So in a contract-law sense it's not negotiation. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract.
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