-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 18. März 2009 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Graham Percival > > <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > >> but, what is important to > >> know is that everything you do is copyrightable by you. > > > > ... unless I sign a contract which states that **any intellectual > > property I create**[1] is owned by the university. Which I did, > > after a great deal of thought. (actually, the first time I was > > offered this job, I turned it down after reading the regulations > > about intellectual property that were in the contract) > > > > [1] unless I can prove it was done on my own time, without > > university resources, in a field not related to my university > > degrees, etc etc. > > Be smart: talk this over with The Powers that Be, and secure a > disclaimer.
When I did an internship a decade ago in the US, the contract also had this clause that anything I wrote during my time there (even in my spare time, on my own computer etc.) would be long to the company. Right before signing, I talked this over with the responsible person there, and we added a disclaimer that any work done on some explicitly listed projects were explicitly excluded from that clause. That was absolutely no problem for them, and I had the legal certainty that I could work on it without fear. I can't imagine that this would be a problem for any university, either. Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJwTijTqjEwhXvPN0RAtYsAJ4spYj7OMMtys8yBkbxEZaW3Ua9YwCgzqjc SdZbzCYekeuV+VH1ZYfVVi0= =g9wP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
