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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Subject: Re: reality check - with apologies
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 09:51:46 GMT
- Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access. The Mouth of the South.
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- jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
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- >It simply isn't true... just being employed DOES NOT cause you to
- >automatically lose all rights over your work. Your employer has to
- >explicitly enter into an agreement with you in this regard, and you
- >have to sign it. Otherwise what you create is yours, and without a
- >document with your signature on it no court of law (in the USA) would
- >find for your employer.
-
- Typical of generalizations, your assertions are wrong in at least
- the state of Georgia. Georgia passed a law a few years ago that
- stacks the deck strongly in favor of the employer regarding
- intellectual property. How this applies to academics is unknown,
- as there have been no test cases.
-
- None of this applies, of course, to tangible assets. Who owns the
- equipment, software, etc would be governed by the contract between
- the university and the payor. Being someone who has purchased
- university research, I can assure you my contracts have specified
- the university controls their side of the deal. Last thing I'd
- want would be for some professor to get his ass in a snit and
- run off to God knows where with my money and my equipment.
- I normally donate my equipment involved to the UNIVERSITY after
- the project is finished.
-
- Reading this thread, two thoughts come to mind. From the original
- prof's own words, I conclude he's being a prick over a turf war
- he cannot win and that he'll probably kiss tenure goodbye. Secondly,
- if this is representative of academic "research" today, something
- is badly wrong.
-
- John
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