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Hah. I interviewed for a [growing in popularity and market share] top 20 cryptocoin. They had some curious choice of words in their "freelance" contract, notably that it would use German copyright law to transfer rights of all inventions I ever made.

I pointed out that a couple of the phrases in the contract, when combined, indicated they would have IP rights to EVERYTHING I did not just work they paid me for.

They moved on to another candidate.

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> Hah. I interviewed for a [growing in popularity and market share] top 20 cryptocoin. They had some curious choice of words in their "freelance" contract, notably that it would use German copyright law to transfer rights of all inventions I ever made.

IANAL but I really doubt that would be legal under german IR/IP laws.

Things like this motivate me to stay in California and work for small companies for the rest of my life, so that California Labor Code § 2870 applies and I get to keep the rights to independent inventions if I'm careful.

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