Work Products. The Employee acknowledges that the ownership of all property resulting from the performance of this Employment Agreement exclusively lies with the Employer. The Employee shall transfer all such items upon first request to the Employer. Furthermore, the Employee acknowledges that, except for patents and design rights, all intellectual property rights to any and all work results, including inventions, discoveries, improvements, know-how, ideas, computer programs, texts, graphics, presentations, concepts, images, and any other similar products (“Work Products”), created by the Employee (solely or in collaboration) in the performance of their work duties, regardless if created within the fulfilment of their explicit or implicit contractual obligations and regardless of whether they are legally susceptible of protection, shall belong to the Employer. The Employer is free in the usage of these rights. If, and to the extent that, such rights to the Work Products do not originally lie with the Employer, e.g. copyright, the Employee hereby irrevocably assigns all such rights to any and all Work Products exclusively to the Employer. The Employer may by means of all current and future processes and systems, use, modify, further develop the Work Products to an unlimited extent. The Employer’s rights are in particular unlimited in regards to usage location, subject, and time. The Employer further may transfer the Work Products to third parties and collect the proceeds from the respective collecting societies (“Verwertungsgesellschaften”). The Employee agrees to perform all necessary actions that may be required for said purposes and to supply documents at first request. Further, if such Work Products cannot be transferred to the Employer, for any reason whatsoever, the Employee shall grant and hereby grants the Employer an exclusive, worldwide, transferable, unlimited, irrevocable, sublicensable and royalty free license to use and exploit the Work Products. The Employee waives the exercise of moral rights, in particular the right to be designated as the author, to the extent permitted by law. The Employee is obligated to respect and refrain from infringing on third party intellectual property rights in the course of their work. If the Employee uses existing works of third parties outside the company (pictures, texts, graphics, animations, sound and film recordings, etc.) in the creation of Work Products, they shall be responsible for ensuring that the Employer or the Employer’s client obtains the necessary usage rights. This obligation shall solely be waived in cases which the material to be processed was provided by the client or the Employer for this purpose. Finally, compensation for the transfer of said rights, in particular the Work Products and/or their licensing, respectively, is included in the agreed salary.
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Work Products. The 17.1 To the extent applicable, the mandatory provisions of the German Employee acknowledges that Inventions Act (Arbeitnehmeerfindungsgesetz) apply to inventions and proposals for technical improvements made by the ownership Employee within his employment relationship or within the context of all property resulting from the performance of this Employment Agreement exclusively lies his employment relationship with the Employer. The .
17.2 With respect to work products generated by the Employee shall transfer within and during his employment relationship with the Employer save work products for which the German Employee Inventions Act (Arbeitnehmererfindungsgesetz) applies, the Employee hereby transfers all rights, including the right to apply for intellectual property rights for such items upon first request work products, to the Employer. FurthermoreTo the extent such transfer is not permissible under applicable laws, the Employee acknowledges that, except for patents and design rights, all intellectual property rights to any and all work results, including inventions, discoveries, improvements, know-how, ideas, computer programs, texts, graphics, presentations, concepts, images, and any other similar products (“Work Products”), created by the Employee (solely or in collaboration) in the performance of their work duties, regardless if created within the fulfilment of their explicit or implicit contractual obligations and regardless of whether they are legally susceptible of protection, shall belong to the Employer. The Employer is free in the usage of these rights. If, and to the extent that, such rights to the Work Products do not originally lie with the Employer, e.g. copyright, the Employee hereby irrevocably assigns all such rights to any and all Work Products exclusively to the Employer. The Employer may by means of all current and future processes and systems, use, modify, further develop the Work Products to an unlimited extent. The Employer’s rights are in particular unlimited in regards to usage location, subject, and time. The Employer further may transfer the Work Products to third parties and collect the proceeds from the respective collecting societies (“Verwertungsgesellschaften”). The Employee agrees to perform all necessary actions that may be required for said purposes and to supply documents at first request. Further, if such Work Products cannot be transferred to the Employer, for any reason whatsoever, the Employee shall grant and hereby grants the Employer an exclusive, worldwide, transferable, unlimited, irrevocable, sublicensable exclusive and royalty free transferable license to the work products, unlimited in time, territory and scope, and including the right to grant sublicenses. The Employer shall be entitled to reproduce, revise, distribute, make publicly available, and use and exploit all work products in all other manners that are known today or will become known in the Work Productsfuture. The Employer shall be entitled to assign such rights and may publish the work products.
17.3 To the extent the German Employee Inventions Act (Arbeitnehmeerfindungsgesetz) does not apply, the respective transfer or grant of rights by the Employee and the exploitation of work products by the Employer shall be deemed compensated by the regular remuneration paid to the Employee. The Employee hereby waives his right to be named as an author of the exercise work products and his right to publish the work products. The Employee may only make use of any other moral rights, in particular including the right of revocation and the right to be designated prohibit alterations or distortions, as the author, to the extent permitted directed in writing by law. The Employee is obligated to respect and refrain from infringing on third party intellectual property rights in the course of their work. If the Employee uses existing works of third parties outside the company (pictures, texts, graphics, animations, sound and film recordings, etc.) in the creation of Work Products, they shall be responsible for ensuring that the Employer or the Employer’s client obtains the necessary usage rights. This obligation shall solely be waived in cases which the material to be processed was provided by the client or the Employer for this purpose. Finally, compensation for the transfer of said rights, in particular the Work Products and/or their licensing, respectively, is included in the agreed salary.
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