Google insists on intellectual property rights in 'projects personally performed on holidays by employees'


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Hector Martin, who has worked at Google, spells out a story about Twitter 's intellectual property rights issue with side projects that he had developed during work hours on Google . .




When working at Google, Martin spent his free time working on personal side projects. Among the side projects, there were some projects that belonged to Google before and others that were open source.

However, according to its policy, Google insisted on the intellectual property rights that Martin-related side projects that were being promoted outside of working hours were 'related to Google's business.'




Google has an Invention Assignment Review Committee (IARC) process that allows employees to get permission to work on individual projects. Martin also submitted applications to IARC for two open source projects: AsbestOS, a Linux emulator running on PS3, and usbmuxd, which multiplexes connections to iOS devices via USB. The application for usbmuxd has been rejected. Since the email asking 'Reason for rejection' was ignored, Mr. Martin finally gave up working on the development of usbmuxd and said he took over the maintenance work.




When Mr. Dibona , an open source director at Google, was informed about issues related to IARC, Mr. Dibona closed out Mr. Martin from IARC and said that he would 'follow the employment contract.'


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However, when Martin carefully read Google's intellectual property clause, Google's intellectual property clause is based on the `` invention made by employees '' of California Labor Law Article 3.5-2870 discovered.




Martin says, “The producers have intellectual property rights for side projects that are done outside the working hours without using the company's intellectual property / equipment. The company has intellectual property rights for projects done in time. Under normal circumstances, according to California Labor Code, Article 3.5, 2870, Martin should have intellectual property rights for side projects conducted outside working hours. However, because Google has intellectual property related to various science and technology, Martin said, “Since any side project started by a Google employee is related to Google ’s intellectual property, Google knows it. You have a property right. '

Martin said, “There should be no intellectual property rights on the company for side projects outside of working hours, especially if it has nothing to do with the work you are responsible for.” I am commenting.

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