Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ...
by dspillett on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:40AM
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There is also another factor to consider: while all this is playing out, in public, you are someone being highlighted as having signed a contract disingenuously. It doesn't matter how bad the contract is, the fact that you signed it and reneged on it later could look bad to future employers (especially if they have links to the company in question through the old-boy network or similar!).
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Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ...
by pja on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @09:03AM
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Unfortunately companies do this all the time: I have personally seen clauses in contracts put forward by employers whose exact wording had been rendered completely ineffective and unenforceable by UK employment case law.
If it’s bad faith to sign off on a contract which contains clauses you do not intend to honour (because they are unenforceable) surely it’s equally bad faith (if not more so, given the power relationship) to keep unenforceable clauses in contracts purely in the hope or expectation that they will frighten uninformed employees into conforming with them?
Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ...
by elastic_church on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:22PM
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> while all this is playing out, in public, you are someone being highlighted as having signed a contract disingenuously.
or that my foresight and source of legal counsel is better and people may find value in that?
or I better hope my side project takes off right!