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Re:Google claims copyright on employee side projects by marcosdumay on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:41AM (#21824656)
> I had to refuse employment in Romania since the clauses were so broad and basically illegal under Romanian law.

If it's illegal, it's void, isn't it? (Maybe Romania does it differently?)

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Re:Google claims copyright on employee side projects by mcv on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:23AM (#21825096)
It doesn't make a lot of sense to sign a contract you know to be illegal, though. Better get it out before you sign it. And it being illegal is a very good argument for getting it out. If the company has a problem with that, you know the company intends to make a problem out of it in the future.
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Re:Google claims copyright on employee side projects by q3k on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:42AM (#21824663)
Do you _really_ want to go against Google's lawyers in court?
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Re:Google claims copyright on employee side projects by Scarblac on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:53AM (#21824769)
But it's still against my principles to sign a contract that has clauses I know to be illegal, and that I would never agree with if they weren't.
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Re:Google claims copyright on employee side projects by walshemj on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:46PM (#21827311)
No actually in the Eu its pretty much legal - with restrictions.

EU law is fairly common across all states so there will be something like the "Masters and Servants" laws that US and UK law has.

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