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Re: [PLUG] intellectual property, code, employment laws, etc
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Be worried.
Marc Zucchelli wrote:
> Section 8 is what I'm worried about.
>
> 8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. Employee/Subcontracor,
> without demand, will disclose promptly to Employer,
> all inventions, discoveries and improvements relating
> to any work to which Employee/Subcontractor is
> assigned by Employer, or relating to any product or
> process used or contemplated by Employer or any
> affiliated company which Employee shall conceive or
> make either alone or jointly, at any time during the
> period of his employment, whether or not concieved or
> made with ther assistance of information, equipment or
> material furnished by Employer. All such ideas,
> inventions, discoveries or improvements concieved or
> made during Employee's employment/Contract, shall
> belong solely and exclusively to employer and
> employee/Subcontractor shall assin all of his rights,
> title and interest, including property rights, in and
> to such idea, invention, discovery or improvement, to
> Employer.
>
> What I do is web applicaiton development, either for
> the company, or for the companies clients. Alot of
> times there is electronic commerce involved. This
> contract worries me because, what if I have another
> client of my own who needs say a shopping cart
> written, is this going to belong to my employer since
> I signed the contract even though I wrote it for my
> own client just because it is "code", or even more so
> because it's a shopping cart, and I've done shopping
> carts for the company. Or what if I use similiar
> coding techniques/infrastructures that I have grown
> accustomed to through my own maturity. Or say I start
> my own services based business based on a web
> application, does the money I make belong to my
> employer now?
>
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