This may end up being the reason it would make sense to either find a foundation to accept copyright assignment, or to create an 'OpenGraphics Foundation' to hold the copyrights and trademarks.
The foundation can then fund Timothy's research, at which point the university will happly do whatever it's funding agents want. On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 11:42:03PM -0500, John Culp wrote: > Timothy, > > Can you even assign copyright for something you are doing _related_ > to your probable research work at Binghamton? Even if you are > working on this 100% in what you consider as your spare time, your > employer may have claim to the work. > > I only ask this as I remember the contracts I signed for my work here. > > You may have it in writing with your employer that you personally > own the copyright and patentable ideas in all the future works that > you create related to Open Graphics, and therefore can license it as > you see fit, but perhaps you don't. > > Universities can be pretty funny when it comes to IP of any sort. > IP created that is in any way related to any research that you are > being paid to do would probably be in a dark grey area. I am > assuming that you are a professional, not an hourly employee, and > you may not actually have any official spare time when it comes to > related work. > > Why don't you spend ~$1k and run your employment contracts by a > lawyer specializing in such things (work for hire). I have been > told that New York law is in general pretty funny compared to the > other states; I don't know how that might effect you. > > It may be that you need to run any license though whatever legal > office exists at your university. For example: Wasn't the copyright > of the X source originally held by MIT, but then licensed very > permissively through the 'MIT X License'? > > IANAL (obviously) > > > -John > > -- > John R. Culp > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' [email protected] Somone asked my why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software & hardware (http://q3u.be) stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer: "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shultz _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
