Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
by Datenstrom on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:50PM
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Don't have one on hand but I have seen quite a few. I have heard that they are mostly 20% time projects though I'm not sure if they try to take code written on your own time but it looks like they do (and anything else you have written before working there) from this:
Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
by everdev on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:55PM
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> As part of your employment agreement, Google most likely owns intellectual property (IP) you create while at the company. Because Google’s business interests are so wide and varied, this likely applies to any personal project you have. That includes new development on personal projects you created prior to employment at Google.
Just to be clear, it says "new" development while you're employed by Google, they don't claim to retroactively own your prior works pre-employment. I'm sure they ask you to declare it though so it's clear what you built before joining.
Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
by rrix2 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @06:12PM
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Perkeep is written/founded by Brad Fitzpatrick (google/golang engineer) and you have to sign a google CLA to contribute to it: https://perkeep.org/code#contributing
Not sure I've seen this before, do you have examples?