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Re:NDA - Company Wants Ownership of Every Idea or Invention ... by rurban on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:09PM (#29572208)
Looks like Amazon to me. Nobody else would dare this, but Amazon is known for such contracts. Well, they really must pay a LOT to get people sign over everything :)
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Re:NDA - Company Wants Ownership of Every Idea or Invention ... by dekhn on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:13PM (#29572257)
You mean AWS? I absolutely doubt that AWS asks software engineers to sign agreements to turn over ownership of prior inventions and ideas (and copyrighted works!)

If you have links to articles suggesting they have, I'd like to see it.

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Re:NDA - Company Wants Ownership of Every Idea or Invention ... by rurban on Thursday December 16, 2021 @01:53AM (#29575732)
This is from personal experience.

There are many cited sources, such as this one: https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/13/amazon_game_contracts... but this was just a single case, retracted for bad publicity.

They try their shenigans even in Germany. You need to get all your private work approved by a committee, otherwise you are not allowed to maintain it off-work, because it may conflict with Amazon business interests. Try that with your 300 repos. You might get 2-4 approved, after months.

And they really believe their intellectual properties trump your intellectual property, not vice versa. You'll learn from them, not them from you. Ha

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