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Some common sense on noncompete clauses

This is no way to build a cluster of video game companies in Massachusetts, and it is no way to grow an innovation-driven state economy in the insanely competitive 21st century.

Logan Benson landed a pretty sweet job in early 2009: testing video game software at Harmonix Music Systems, the Cambridge company that developed Rock Band and Dance Central. Thinking there would be opportunities for promotion, he took a pay cut to work there.

But in December of that year, Benson, then 26, was laid off. Within a few weeks, he was in the running for an associate producer job at Seven45 Studios, a Boston video game company that was, like Harmonix, working on music-related video games. "It was the kind of job that felt like it would have advanced my career,” Benson says.

But executives at Harmonix blocked Benson from taking the new job.

By Scott Kirsner

Full Story: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/07/03/noncompete_clauses_stifling_to_creativity_in_mass/

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