ECSNorway Wrote:A lot of businesses make it a part of the standard employment contract that any copyrightable work you create while in their employ is theirs, period, even if you never work on it during office hours or use the employer's resources for it. Having been a freelancer in the gaming industry, it's one of my standard interview questions.Mostly because of the situation of not knowing WHEN something is actually conceived. Plus, if it's a creative field, it neatly kills the whole "moonlighting freelancer" idea. You have to ask for deliberate exceptions to this "boilerplate" in the contract, or at least that's the realistic expectation. I haven't encountered this sort of boilerplate yet as a graphic designer, but I expect that will change when I can move out of production areas of the industry into actual design firms.
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