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Re:Ask HN: Using a side project at my day job by weaksauce on Saturday December 21, 2013 @11:30AM (#6947020)
This is great advice. If the op hasn't done contracts before the Nolo press series is a great place to start. Contracts are a lot like programming with English(or insert native tongue here) and a lot less scary than people make them out to be. Hire a lawyer to review it before hand and know that contracts are a negotiation.

As an aside, the mobile interface for this site makes it damn near impossible to make sure you are voting correctly. Sorry about the mistaken downvote.

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Re:Ask HN: Using a side project at my day job by walshemj on Saturday December 21, 2013 @11:45AM (#6947064)
No its rather poor advice IP and labour law law is complex and Nolo themselves that they only deal with simple matters.
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Re:Ask HN: Using a side project at my day job by alok-g on Saturday December 21, 2013 @12:38PM (#6947263)
Agreed. Nolo books are very basic.

The following is much better and does talk about many corner cases. It also is written specifically for the software-development case.

http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Property-Open-Source-Prot...

The book is written by software developers turned lawyers, and provided me with some fresh perspectives on the nature of the law itself.

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