Dilema

John Tapsell tapselj0 at cs.man.ac.uk
Tue Mar 19 00:26:32 UTC 2002


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On Tuesday 19 March 2002 00:15, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 23:55, John Tapsell wrote:
> > > That depends what it does. John, can you tell us more aobut it,
> > > or are you bound by a confidentiality agreement?
> >
> > Well technically the university owns the IP, and I'm in negotions with
> > them to get it back.
>
> What your university may own is not the IP but the copyright, or
> authorship right, but how exactly so? Did you derive work from that
> university's proprietary software? Did you sign any document at all
> granting them the copyright over your work during your university years?

In the UK, and I expect at every university everywhere, you sign a document 
granting them ownership of your brain when you join.

JohnFlux
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