On 8/8/06, Petr Machata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to make the university to GPL the code and documentation, and give up their copyright, so that it could be used without restriction, but won't know the outcome until later this year.
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding from researching university claims to copyright of student work is that a university policy of holding a copyright on work you have done in a class that you paid to be in is entirely specious. If you are being compensated for your work and receiving research grants or something like that it's different, but if you are doing work for a class that you are paying to be in, that work is yours under the Berne convention, and it is yours to license how you please. As a paying student, you hire your university to coach you. You never hear about universities claiming copyright on the output from authors who have taken creative writing classes, do you? of course as a doctoral student you may be receiving grant money or stipends which may make your work work-for-hire, but then again it might not, if your grant or stipend is a financial aid or is for tasks other than writing software and docs, such as being a teaching assistant. http://www.google.com/search?q=copyright+on+student+work shows many links to various policy documents, most of which refer to international copyright law, which should apply to FIT BUT as well as they apply in Canada or Minnesota. -- David L Nicol all your grammar nit are belong to us
