The Miserable State of Intellectual Property Clauses in Developer Contracts
I want to go to my HR&#x2F;Legal departament and demand they change clauze 13 in my contract (the part about copyright&#x2F;IP) to say XX instead (this is an UK contract). What exactly would XX say so it&#x27;s legaly unambiguous that I keep copyright&#x2F;IP for all I do outside of work and they keep everything I do during&#x2F;related to&#x2F;competing with work?<p>And I mean it, how EXACTLY have you changed your employment contract to reflect this. I&#x27;ve asked about this before but not received a straight answer so instead of giving opinions about quiting our jobs and go work in a place where this magically does not happen let&#x27;s all gather here, think about it and write up a convincing clause, then go with it to our employers and demand we have contracts changed, or when negotiating a new job offer. It&#x27;s easier to give them a piece of text they can review and copy&#x2F;paste than a vague request of &quot;I want rights&quot;, and letting them figure it out for you.<p>So, if you have a concrete example you have used successfully, please post it below, together with the country. I&#x27;m interested in UK specific clauses mainly but write about any country really.