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USA Employment Law: Job Search with Moonlighting
I am a Software Developer contractor but I also want to have my own side-hustle business. This side hustle business might contain programming, research or developing new software products. However, it ...
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Can a business allow employees to use their own developed software for work as a way to protect its proprietary software?
Can a business allow employees to use their own software for work as a way to make sure that if the company has to declare bankruptcy and sell all its assets, then it can hide its proprietary software ...
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Could signing an intellectual property agreement for an algorithm coding job prevent me from working in a similar industry later?
I am a computer coder / algorithm developer and am just getting started in industry where I know I'll have to deal with IP agreements. In particular, the question I'm asking here came about because I ...
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Does a 16yo without a work permit have rights to the code he was paid to develop?
I am sixteen, and I have a summer job for a software company.
In my state (Maine), a work permit from school is required for someone of my age to have a job but it was never filled out. I assume ...
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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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Who owns the code when my employer wants something similar to my existing open source project?
I have a similar situation to this question.
My employer hired me knowing that I work on some open source projects, but for a long time, showed no interest in my open source projects. Now they want ...
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