Kuhn: It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights

*every* employer I've worked for in the past twenty years (save one) has had an "we own everything copyrightable you create during the period of your employment" clause. The last one relented when I made it clear I would explicitly be notifying them of (and requesting a formal release for) *every* *single* email/sms/IM, forum comment, photo/video, napkin doodle, etc etc I created that was not within the scope of my employment.

> IMHO employers should be expected to explicitly lay out with exhaustive clarity the exact set of things that they consider to be "related" to their business.

As you pointed out that's often not practical, especially for larger organizations, but one process I've seen that is reasonably effective is declaring up front what F/OSS projects you are materially active in, and it's on them to object up front, with mutual notification if something changes.