Re:Google claims copyright on employee side projects
by q3k on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:45AM
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IIUC this governs patentable inventions, not copyright.
Re:Google claims copyright on employee side projects
by Xylakant on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:52AM
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No, it also covers technical improvements that are not patentable: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/__3.html
Re:Google claims copyright on employee side projects
by jix on Thursday December 19, 2019 @05:59AM
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That's just defining the term. AFAICT the law only says that an employee has a right to receive fair compensation for a technical improvement in some cases. It explicitly says that apart from that, procedures covering technical improvements are a matter of contracts: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/__20.html
Re:Google claims copyright on employee side projects
by walshemj on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:37PM
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This is the point I think the tweeter and a lot of commenters on here miss.
In the EU all those laws are part of the statutory employment law /eu directives and not in an individuals contract - so employees don't ever know about that unless they know about employment law.
Re:Google claims copyright on employee side projects
by Xylakant on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:11PM
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> so employees don't ever know about that unless they know about employment law.
I'd really recommend all employees to read up at least on the generics of employment law. No need to read up on the edge cases, but the general law is pretty clear and not too long.
Many work contracts don't have clauses for inventions related to your field of employment because there's no ambiguity.
Most patches would not fall under the law, but entire libaries or novel approaches might. (basically anything patent-worthy)