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Re:Google claims copyright on employee side projects by walshemj on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:37PM (#21827221)
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.

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Re:Google claims copyright on employee side projects by Xylakant on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:11PM (#21829519)
> 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.

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