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Re:"Google asserts copyright, even on work I do in my own ti... by comice on Saturday December 04, 2010 @05:06PM (#1970269)
What else of Google's employees stuff do Google get to own? If they get into debt, does Google share that too?
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Re:"Google asserts copyright, even on work I do in my own ti... by runningdogx on Sunday December 05, 2010 @01:26AM (#1971151)
And, as johnl asked in the github thread, does Google hold copyright on Chris's comments here on HN?

Code, comments... they're both speech. If you can sign away code copyright in an employment contract, can you also sign away copyright to all human language speech you write?

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