Oh, and as another aside, I left CMU in February (I'm now unemployed) but the last effort we had was to release our 6 year research project as open source. That effort is tied up in legal somewhere and has been since January. Since I'm no longer there I expect the code will never see the light of day. Which implies that I cannot use my last 6 years of work. Technically I cannot complain as I knew the rules while I worked there but it really does seem like a waste of good research. Nobody will be able to build on the results, which is a fundamental principle of scientific progress.
Tim Daly On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 15:42 -0400, daly wrote: > Hmmm. I did work at CMU last year on a Journal article. > It was based on about 3 years of research work. The article > was completed, submitted for review, and accepted. CMU > required that I sign over the copyright to them. Springer > required that I sign over the copyright to them, despite > an agreement between CMU and Springer. It turned out that > the agreement was between CMU and Springer USA but the > Journal is published by Springer Europe. > > Ultimately the two lawyers could not agree and my Journal > article was withdrawn during production. CMU now holds the > copyright. Three years of work and I have nothing, no rights > and no publication. > > As a major advocate of Literate Programming I was hoping to > publish a follow-on paper that included the actual source > code. Why bother? > > Tim Daly > > > On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 12:20 -0700, William Stein wrote: > > > > > > On Sunday, October 16, 2011, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Bill, > > > are you sure that you have signed away to your employer rights to > > your ideas ? > > > > Technically Bill only said that Uni's consider employee work > > intellectual property, but he did not say they consider it *their* > > intellectual property... > > > > > While some not so great universities are just degree-selling > > businesses, > > > last time I had to obtain a permission from my employer for > > publishing something, was still in Soviet Union! > > > So I really don't see how results of work done by a faculty member > > are university property. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel > > +unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > > > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > > > > > > -- > > William Stein > > Professor of Mathematics > > University of Washington > > http://wstein.org > > > > > > > > -- > > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel > > +unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
