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Subject: Protect employees' personal projects Dear Representative or Senator, I live in my state. Please support a law protecting employees' right to own and publish personal projects. Apps, tools, games, open-source work, and small businesses made outside the job should belong to their creators. Please support these protections: 1. Employee ownership of projects made on personal time and equipment. 2. Continued protection for company secrets, code, customer data, and assigned work. 3. Freedom to publish, sell, contribute to open source, and use one's own name. 4. Specific, written reasons for any employer restriction. 5. Protection from retaliation for projects that meet these rules. 6. Limits on contracts that claim ownership of protected personal work. People should be able to keep their job and build something of their own. Sincerely, [Your Name] [City, State]

Subject: Please support the Right to Build Dear Representative or Senator, I live in my state. Please protect employees' right to own and publish projects made outside their job, on personal time and equipment. Company secrets, code, customer data, and assigned work must stay protected. Employers should explain any real conflict in writing and should not punish workers for protected personal projects. Please support a Right to Build law. Sincerely, [Your Name]

Hi, my name is [Name], and I live in [City]. Please ask my representative to support the Right to Build. Workers should own and be able to publish projects made outside their job, on their own time and equipment. Company secrets, code, customer data, and assigned work must stay protected. Will the office consider legislation that makes these rules clear? Thank you.