On Thursday 15 Mar 2012, [email protected] wrote: > On Thursday 15 March 2012 16:23:59 Vickram Crishna wrote: > > Is there clarity on 'ownership' of research documents produced in > > Universities funded by the Government? Meaning, at the very least, > > for research funded with government money. > > As per copyright law ownership will automatically rest with the > author. Unless the university makes the author sign a cc-?? licence, > I can see the above failing in court if an author chooses to prevent > publication. However I am not at all sure of any copyright terms > being attached to funding.
Reminding everyone that copyright and licence are separate. Copyright automatically vests with the authors; however, the authors (or their sponsoring organisation) can choose any licence to release the document under. If would be excellent if an appropriate CC licence (note: not all CC licences are free) is chosen. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || [email protected] || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
