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And so, *as long as* whatever I did in my spare time and without using Google resources did not result from work I did for Google, it didn't matter one bit whether it "related to Google's business", which is the loophole they use to own everything you do.
And so I resolved to give zero shits from that point on about their IP ownership policies, and did whatever I wanted in my spare time. If you work for Google (Ireland especially) you should check your employment contract carefully. You might be able to do the same.
I hope Google's employees are able to unionize and this is one of the changes they should demand. No company should be able to own things you do in your spare time, especially if they don't relate at all to your job description (regardless of whether they do to someone else's).
Also, if you work for Google Switzerland, your contract _is_ different, and you _might_ be able to ignore IARC fully.
As long as you don't found a competing business venture and you are doing whatever stuff outside the working hours on private hardware, all this shit would never hold in Germany as well. The whole idea of waiving IP rights for stuff you did in your free time is batshit crazy.
For Switzerland there are similar loop holes, but I think they have to have them due to labor laws. IIRC the company can buy your IP for a fair market price or something like that, which is obviously not happening in practice.
I dislike that anything I develop on my own in my spare time on personal equipment that has anything past / present / foreseeable future project is suspect for forfeiture to Google. That’s my understanding.
if you work for Google in Ireland, Irish (read: European) employment/IP/etc laws will be the ones that matter as far as I can understand, no?
Yes, but regardless of what the law says, since my contract said I owned my work (the fact that it was a copypasta error from CA law is irrelevant), I did, without having to try to claim the clause was invalid under local law.
It certainly depends on the country, but I'd expect a court to recognize the visible intent of a contract rather than the literal wording. You know, judges are typically lawyers and not computer scientists. So while it's an interesting loophole, I wouldn't bet my life on it.
"or" is pretty explicit. No judge in Ireland would say "well, it says this or that, but clearly some California law that has nothing to do with Europe is what they were going for so that takes precedence". The wording is clear, it doesn't take a computer scientist to interpret.
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