Re^4: What I am paid for

Do you mean *anything* related to your professional work? Or does thing *anything* also covers completely unrelated own OOS projects of the employee?

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Re^5: What I am paid for by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Mar 09, 2010 at 10:47 UTC
Anything. 24/7. In some cases, it doesn't even matter if it's work-related. I've seen employment contracts in the US which, taken as written, mean that if you work as a programmer and, during an extended vacation, you design and patent a new style of hairbrush, your employer owns that patent. Now, whether those clauses are actually enforceable depends on what state you live in, but employers do routinely make such broad claims to any and all intellectual property developed by their employees, regardless of what it is or when it's created.	[reply]

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Re^5: What I am paid for
by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Mar 09, 2010 at 10:47 UTC

Anything

Now, whether those clauses are actually enforceable depends on what state you live in, but employers do routinely make such broad claims to any and all intellectual property developed by their employees, regardless of what it is or when it's created.

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