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Re:Why One of Silicon Valley’s Savviest Investors Has Shut H... by mgkimsal on Friday May 11, 2012 @07:16AM (#3958651)
"Even if you worked for a software company, coming up with new cat food would belong to them."

As would any terrorist plans or child porn. This has come up a couple times in contracts with employers in the past, and I tell them they really don't want to own everything I develop, and I've had that clause struck from a contract with a bit of pushing.

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Re:Why One of Silicon Valley’s Savviest Investors Has Shut H... by rogerbinns on Saturday May 12, 2012 @12:12PM (#3964275)
I've encountered several contracts in California where they ask you to list everything you created outside of the company. The implication is that anything you don't list was then created while working for the company and hence implicitly owned by them. They explained the provision is for my benefit. I finally just started putting in "Numerous past and future works identified with my personal copyright".
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