What we want to protect
Apps, games, writing, open source, and businesses made outside your job, on your own time and equipment.
Your work outside work
Build and publish.
Under your own name.
Your employer should own the work it pays you to do. You should own the apps, tools, and businesses you build on your own time. We're working to make that the law.
Your own tools. No company secrets.
The problem
A job can put your side project on hold.
Some employer policies restrict personal apps, paid tools, or open-source work, even when they are unrelated to the job.
We want clear rules so people can publish their own work without risking their job.
The boundary
Personal projects should stay personal.
What stays off limits
Company secrets, code, customer data, paid work time, and work assigned by your employer. You cannot speak for the company.
Add your name.
I support clearer legal protection for work created outside the job.
The proposal
Four changes we want.
Read the proposed policyOwn your work
Personal projects should belong to the person who makes them.
Explain real conflicts
Employers should name a specific conflict, in writing.
Publish openly
Sell your work and take credit under your own name.
Protect your job
No punishment for building a protected personal project.
Ask your lawmakers to act.
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