Can anyone translate this for me? What does it mean?
I had to sign this as an employee, what does it mean?
Writings and copyrights. Any writings or other copyrightable material first produced or composed during the performance of work in connection with my employment with the company, shall be deemed a work made for hire and I hereby assign and shall assign to the Company, it's successors, assigns or nominees all right, title and interest therein. In the event I use my own copyrighted or copyrightable material in the performance of work for the company, which material was not first produced or composed by me in the performance of such work, to the extent I have the right to do so, I hereby grant, and shall grant to the company a royalty free, non-exclusive and irrevocable license to reproduce, translate, publish, use and dispose of such material, and to authorize others to do so in the conduct of company business.
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In other words, anything that you do at your work belongs to your employer. You have no further claim as you have already been paid for the work. It is blanket, and truly means everything.
Your employer is taking a chance that you will be productive, and paying you to be so. If you feel you can earn more by selling your productivity yourself, you should be self-employed.
Answer to your last question -- This is only during your working time. The agreement clearly states, "during the performance of work in connection with my employment with the company." It also states that if you use your own copyrighted, etc., material to complete your work with the company, you will not attempt to charge them and they can reproduce your work without charge.
Therefore, do not use anything you produce on your own time on the job unless you negotiate an exception.
It pretty much says that any work you do for your new employer becomes theirs.meaning you have no rights in it and they have all, exclusive rights. They can make money off you forever, essentially, but you can't...it's standard, although it sounds unfair.
I don't think the last part of that is enforceable. Too open ended. Otherwise, what it says is that any copyrightable material you produce while doing your job belongs to the company and any of your own copyrighted material produced outside, but used on behalf of the company can be used by them without license. The last part says that the company can assign that right to someone else. That's the part I think may be unenforceable.
Basically that anything that you create or write while an employee or working in connection with them, the patents and copyrights belong to them and not to you.
It's pretty standard, and it's totally enforceable. Nothing to worry about.
It means the work and work product you produce on the job or for your job belongs to your employer.
that any brainsweat that you perform in your work is PROPERTY of your employer, and not you. If you use something that you came up with before you went to work there to solve a problem, but didnt Copywrite it before hand it becomes intellectual property of your employer. For example... If you have a problem on a computer at work.. develop software AT HOME to fix that problem.. that software is property of the employer.
it means that anything you create, invent or discover while in their employment belongs to them.
most companies involved with research of any kind require their employees to sign this agreement as they assume that you would be using their resources in such an event.
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