I don't work for Oracle, but my employer also owns anything I write on my own time with my own resources, even if it has absolutely nothing to do with my job. Regarding your other comment, the US Supreme court pretty much made corporations into people, recently, and they seem to have more rights than actual human beings now.
-ste Sent from my iPad On Nov 6, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Jaroslaw Rafa <[email protected]> wrote: > Darren Reed napisal(a): >> >> It is the standard employment contract that you sign that requires you to >> agree to give them ownership of any intellectual property that you might >> develop whilst that contract is being executed (i.e you're employed by >> them), regardless of where or whence you are. > > I think such wording in a contract may be against the law. It surely is > illegal in most European countries, but I don't know how this looks like > where you live... > If it is legal in your country, then I can say only one thing: what a shitty > political system that gives more rights to corporations than to people... :( > Regards, > Jaroslaw Rafa > [email protected] > -- > Zapraszam na moja strone: http://www.ap.krakow.pl/~raj/ >
