‘Anything You Make in the Apartment Is Ours’: Landlord Roasted for Adding ‘Intellectual Property’ Clause to Rental Agreement

They’ve somehow gotten even bolder.

By Braden Bjella

Published 19 minutes ago in Wtf

Landlords can get pretty insane with their requests. Massive security deposits you’ll never get back, restrictions on how many people you can have in the apartment at a given time, demanding the ability to let themselves in whenever they want — buddy, if you wanted to run the place, you should have actually lived there!


This demand, however, might take the cake. Shared by Australian housing activist Jordan van den Lamb, the rental agreement lays claim to any “intellectual property, moral rights, copyright” and more to anything that you make in the apartment.



Basically, if you’re an artist or novelist and you work on a piece in the apartment, sorry, but that belongs to your landlord now!


Would this be legally enforceable? I don’t know, I’m not an expert in Australian law. But it really says something about landlords that they would try to pull a stunt like this in the first place.

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