On 19 May 2006 at 18:40, Dan Minette wrote: > > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > > > So if gov't researchers _on their own time_ come up > > > with something novel, they should be 'owners' of that? > > > > Depends. > > > > If my husband comes up with *any* sort of software while he's with his > > current employer, his current employer owns it. It's in his employment > > contract. > > > > He wouldn't sign until he was satisfied that there was some sort of > > stipulation that non-software intellectual property that he came up with > > on his own time (e.g., written fiction) was HIS and not theirs. > > That's a bit stronger than what I had to sign when I was an employee. I > certainly wouldn't sign such an agreement now, unless it was part of an > offer that was too good to be true....since it would preclude me having any > other customers. > > As for writing fiction, the closest I've come to in the last 20 years has > been my monthly report, so I guess they had a right to the fiction I wrote.
Heh, well my contract states anything within normal working hours, at work. Buut..because so many of us have partially flexible working hours, the effect is anything we do at work belongs to them. I write my fiction at home :) AndrewC Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
