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.On my first day at Touche Ross, way back in 1989, I found a rule like this in the employee handbook. As I had just signed the contract for I.S.T. only a couple months earlier, I immediately went to my manager and told her it was a dealbreaker. It escalated all the way up to a VP before a ruling was made that it only applied if I wrote the book on company time and company equipment.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.