Re: Contract Advice Needed, Quick! Can someone read this & provide an opinion?

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Great suggestion for the language. I will use that, and thanks very much!

PT

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Char James-Tanny <charjtf -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> > I have an opportunity for a short-term contract (about 6-7 months) and
> the
> > employment agreement has a section on copyrights and patents. I've read
> it
> > four times already, and I think it might affect my own (off their clock)
> > works and inventions but I am not sure. Being that I might have a book
> deal
> > in play, I really DON'T want to do that.
>
> I'm neither a contract expert nor an attorney. However, whenever I get
> something like this in a contract, I either cross it out (and initial
> it), or I modify it to include pertinent details (for example, "for
> works performed during billable time" or "excluding works created on
> personal time").
>
> No one has ever said anything. (Obviously, YMMV.)
>
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