Like he said, if you create for hire, your product belongs to your employer. Otherwise, what are they paying for? Even technical products can be patented by your employer.
I agree, especially if and when the work on the patent has been performed outside of scheduled hours. It is especially galling when some outside entity becomes aware of the patent and tries to approach the company for the purpose of collaboration on a realization---and the company doesn't even call them back. And then lets the patents lapse. I am contemplating the publication of all my other invention-related work, simply because I don't believe in hiding my light under a bushel.
but it's like they're not only taking what you make, they're also creating a profile on the creator and taking that. It's like a form of plagarism! They're using you to train your replacement. Idk it just seems wrong
Any artist (or creator) for hire is always subject to his work being used not according to his wishes, or repurposed, or revised by others. Someone who builds a house for hire gets no say in what becomes of the house after it is turned over to its owners. You need to readjust your conception of what is right and wrong when free trade is involved. And have more confidence in the originality of creators.
Where is the justice in it working any other way when employed? (If you want to be the sole creator and copyright your work to sell directly freelance, then you have a monopoly on your work. You just have to be willing to do that.)
Like he said, if you create for hire, your product belongs to your employer. Otherwise, what are they paying for? Even technical products can be patented by your employer.
That hasn't exactly been fair, either. Saying this as a researcher with patent work.
I agree, especially if and when the work on the patent has been performed outside of scheduled hours. It is especially galling when some outside entity becomes aware of the patent and tries to approach the company for the purpose of collaboration on a realization---and the company doesn't even call them back. And then lets the patents lapse. I am contemplating the publication of all my other invention-related work, simply because I don't believe in hiding my light under a bushel.
but it's like they're not only taking what you make, they're also creating a profile on the creator and taking that. It's like a form of plagarism! They're using you to train your replacement. Idk it just seems wrong
Any artist (or creator) for hire is always subject to his work being used not according to his wishes, or repurposed, or revised by others. Someone who builds a house for hire gets no say in what becomes of the house after it is turned over to its owners. You need to readjust your conception of what is right and wrong when free trade is involved. And have more confidence in the originality of creators.
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Where is the justice in it working any other way when employed? (If you want to be the sole creator and copyright your work to sell directly freelance, then you have a monopoly on your work. You just have to be willing to do that.)