On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Graham Percival <[email protected]> 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. The FSF can provide you with a text that is legally sound. Show that to the PtB, explain your reasoning and have them sign it. Unless you are in a directly competing area at a commercial institution, this is usually not a problem at all. Even if it might not be strictly necessary in the UGlasgow case, it is always better to have understandings explicitly on paper. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [email protected] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
