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		comice on Dec 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "Google asserts copyright, even on work I do in my... What else of Google's employees stuff do Google get to own? If they get into debt, does Google share that too?

runningdogx on Dec 5, 2010 [–]

And, as johnl asked in the github thread, does Google hold copyright on Chris's comments here on HN?

Code, comments... they're both speech. If you can sign away code copyright in an employment contract, can you also sign away copyright to all human language speech you write?

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