Re: FWD: Intellectual Property

[credland -at- lmi -dot- net]

Quoting Anonymous <anonfwd -at- raycomm -dot- com>:

> I have just got my contract of employment (moving from contract to
> permanent work at the same company) and noted that the intellectual
> property section requires everything I do while employed by my company
> to become the property of the company.

I always change these clauses by hand in the contract, or get a written 
explanation and confirmation of exactly what this means and attach that 
confirmation to the contract. 

In reality, your company probably isn't interested in creative writing. 
However, if you do contract technical writing for other companies, there could 
be problems, especially if the other company is a competitor of your employer. 

In a strict interpretation of that clause, your employer would own the 
intellectual property rights to documentation written for a competitor.  That 
could get nasty.

Jane, recovering paralegal


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