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Can an employer steal intellectual property?
Say someone wrote some software PRIOR to employment at the company where they currently work.
They presented it to a CEO and three other high level employees of the company. They expressed, what the ...
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Revoking my right to defend my Intellectual Property by using Let's Encrypt
Agreement: https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.1.1-August-1-2016.pdf
Section of interest:
BY WAY OF FURTHER EXPLANATION REGARDING THE SCOPE OF THE DISCLAIMER,
AND WITHOUT WAIVING OR ...
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Derivative softwares copyrigths from a more generic software
Imagine consultancy C has a generic software for analyzing data S.
Now C has a client C1 and from the software S it derives a software S1 to analyzed some specific data for C1. The overall dependency ...
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What effect does it have when something contains the phrase "copyright 2018 MrAuthor"
I'm curious why some documents (both written on paper and source code) sometimes literally say something like "Copyright 2018 Bill Gates" for example.
This question occured to me because I just came ...
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Inventions Assignment Agreement in California
As I was being hired today, I was asked to sign a "Confidentiality and Inventions Assignment Agreement" which partly reads:
"I agree that all right (...) to any copyrightable material (...)
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Is there a “standard template” NDA contract that covers a majority of businesses requiring protection of proprietary information?
The following paragraph stood out as unusual for an NDA that a friend was asked to sign:
“Terms and Termination.
This Agreement shall terminate two (2) year(s) after the Effective Date. The ...
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What does "reasonable" mean?
I have seen the phrase 'reasonable conditions' used quite often in legal texts, and I always get nervous, as I don't know how to interpret it.
Imagine a Confidentiality and Assignment Agreement with ...
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Does section 2870 of the California Labor Code apply if my employer has headquarters in California but I do not work there?
I do not live in California, but my employer does business, has headquarters, and is incorporated in California. Which state's laws apply to the employment agreement? In particular, does Section 2870 ...
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Disclosing prior inventions to company before starting work
I know some companies want on boarding employees to disclose to them any invention or innovation they have made. If you do not do this, can the company claim the invention or innovation as their own? ...
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Can employer claim ownership of intellectual property made while not at work?
I've heard in job contracts there can be clauses saying that all intellectual property created by the employee during their employment, belongs to the company, regardless if it's done during hours ...
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Is it possible for an artist to retain the rights to their artwork while also allowing the client to reproduce the artwork?
I'm designing an album cover for a client and they want the rights to put the album cover art on a multitude of items (posters, tshirts, etc).
Is there a way for the artist (me) to retain the rights ...
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Scope and participants in the Oracle Contributor Agreement
Reading the Oracle Contributor Agreement (direct PDF link), there are some points which seem off, at least for me as someone with zero legal knowledge.
The first paragraph defines:
The term “...
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Does Mojang break the law with restrictions in their EULA for Minecraft?
Minecraft is a world building game that is produced/sold by Mojang AB. Minecraft may be played both offline (local data) or online (connecting to a server).
Minecraft's EULA says that you may not ...
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Reasonable interpretation of the term "In connection with" with respect to intellectual property
In the phrase:
"You agree that any rights you may have in any intellectual property produced, invented or conceived by you in connection with any of our business whether before or after the date of ...
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Who owns the intellectual property that I complete outside of work?
I'm currently employed for a company as a software engineer. In my own time separate from my employment I write software. The software I write on my own has nothing remotely to do with my employment. ...
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