<story><title>Google claims copyright on employee side projects</title><url>https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1207234468928356352</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>draugadrotten</author><text>Does society accept this behaviour outside tech?   Imagine that a Michelin restaurant would claim copyright on the dishes cooked by the chef in his spare time.  Or that the big farm would ask for a piece of those carrots grown in the back yard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akuji1993</author><text>This is mostly a US thing. If I don&amp;#x27;t implement a DIRECT competitor to my company in my free time, the company can do absolutely nothing about it here. IF I implement a competitor and put it on the market, they can fire me. They can&amp;#x27;t however, sue me for the posession of the software. That&amp;#x27;s just a legal nightmare in the US.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google claims copyright on employee side projects</title><url>https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1207234468928356352</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>draugadrotten</author><text>Does society accept this behaviour outside tech?   Imagine that a Michelin restaurant would claim copyright on the dishes cooked by the chef in his spare time.  Or that the big farm would ask for a piece of those carrots grown in the back yard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Imagine that a Michelin restaurant would claim copyright on the dishes cooked by the chef in his spare time.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not a Michelin restaurant, but apparently Outback Steakhouse makes that exact claim.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Inventions, Ideas, Processes, and Designs. All inventions, ideas, recipes, processes, programs, software, and designs ...conceived or made by Employee during the course of Employee’s employment with the Employer (whether or not actually conceived during regular business hours) and for a period...&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sec.gov&amp;#x2F;Archives&amp;#x2F;edgar&amp;#x2F;data&amp;#x2F;874691&amp;#x2F;000119312508109842&amp;#x2F;dex1016.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sec.gov&amp;#x2F;Archives&amp;#x2F;edgar&amp;#x2F;data&amp;#x2F;874691&amp;#x2F;0001193125081...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>