# github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement

GitHub's employee intellectual property agreement, open sourced and reusable

Repository: https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/balanced-employee-ip-agreement
License: CC0-1.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: law, policy, intellectual-property
Last push: 2026-07-18T19:37:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 65/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3711, "days_push": 46, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2238, forks 155 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:29.493504+00:00)

## What it is
GitHub's Balanced Employee IP Agreement (BEIPA), an open-source, reusable template for employee intellectual property agreements that balances company and employee rights. It ships as editable documents (PDF, ODT, DOCX) that companies can adapt to their needs.

## Use cases
- draft a fair employee IP agreement for my startup
- find an alternative to overly broad IP assignment contracts
- understand how employee IP agreements balance company and employee rights
- adopt GitHub's open source IP policy template
- customize an IP agreement that lets employees keep side-project ownership

## When to choose
- you want a balanced, employee-friendly IP agreement template you can modify
- you value employee autonomy over side projects and free-time creations
- you want a community-maintained, openly licensed legal document

## When to avoid
- you need jurisdiction-specific legal advice or a lawyer-reviewed contract
- you want maximum employer control over all employee-created IP
- you need agreements covering contractors or non-compete terms

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: stable
- function: documentation
- domain: legal, hr, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: legal-template, intellectual-property, employment-agreement, open-source-policy, cc0

## Member repositories
- github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement (main) score 65

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:29.493504+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:44:14.123344+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:29.493504+00:00, sha edb2700c79f3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.