On 8/26/2014 3:56 PM, Nick Collins wrote:
In many states ( California may be one of the exceptions ) those kinds of clauses are completely unenforceable if the "invention" is developed on your own time and only on your own equipment. If you are using company resources, then it definitely murkies the waters, but so long as you steer clear of that, then the generally accepted IP guidelines state that unless your contract specifically denotes the specific code your are writing is a "work made for hire" then you by default own the source code.
In my experience / opinion; It is quite common for corporate contracts with non-legally-enforcable clauses. If put the responsibility on the 'lowly contractor' to prove he is in the right; which can be very expensive if it ever came to that. That is probably why such clauses exist in contracts.
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