{"id":842,"date":"2011-02-11T00:14:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T00:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2011-02-11T00:14:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T00:14:03","slug":"does-your-employer-own-your-side-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2011\/02\/11\/does-your-employer-own-your-side-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Does your employer own your side projects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a surprising amount of misinformation out there about whether software companies own the work that a programmer does in their spare time.<\/p>\n<p>From my answer to the question on answers.onstartups.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\"><p> Being an employee of a high tech company whose product is intellectual means that you have decided that you want to sell your intellectual output.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing here:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\"><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.onstartups.com\/questions\/19422\/if-im-working-at-a-company-do-they-have-intellectual-property-rights-to-the-stu\/20136#20136\">If I&#8217;m working at a company, do they have intellectual property rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a surprising amount of misinformation out there about whether software companies own the work that a programmer does in their spare time. From my answer to&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2011\/02\/11\/does-your-employer-own-your-side-projects\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Does your employer own your side projects?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83KNI-dA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}