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> Is this really true?

From my personal experience, this really depends. Some employment agreements are stated very widely, so the employer even gets retroactive ownership of things you do in the past; some include copyrights for work you'll do in the future, after employment, in the same domain which can be said to be based on work you've done for the employer; some include all side-work regardless of domain, while you work there; some don't.



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