GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources
This is just putting into a contract what ought to be considered normal and reasonable defaults.  I don&#x27;t think they deserve special praise for it, rather companies that don&#x27;t do this deserve criticism.<p>Whenever I&#x27;ve encountered overly grasping IP clauses in contracts I&#x27;ve always had them re-written so they only cover work which is done during working hours or related to &lt;core_business&gt;.  No employer has ever objected to this, they usually have just been advised by lawyers to be ultra aggressive by default.  One (English) employer struck the whole clause on the basis that copyright law covered them sufficiently anyway as by default works created &quot;in the course of employment&quot; belonged to the employer.