Dilema

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:26:32AM +0000, John Tapsell wrote:
> 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.

Recently an article related to this was added to the GNU website:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/university.html

Jeroen Dekkers
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