Rayson Ho <[email protected]> writes: > Dave, if I recall correctly, you have not worked in the industry > before. I have to tell you that any code, articles, and presentations > written during employment are owned by the employer, not by the > original author. This rule applies to most companies in the states, > like IBM, Sun, Microsoft, etc...
I don't think US "works for hire" copyright has much to do with specific companies unless they can buy the law, but I guess there was some contract involved for providing the course. I assume Georgetown were distributing it lawfully. [I don't think my career is relevant to understanding copyright, but I'm afraid I have had to review US law and I contributed to a Sun document that was to become a "Blueprint" until that was overtaken by events.] > I exchanged emails with Dan before the holidays, and I can check with > Dan, Good. > but most likely he can't do anything as it is a property of > Sun/Oracle. Unless Dan explicitly asked Sun for an exemption (DanT was > hired to work on Grid Engine, so it is questionable that his boss > would have grant him the exemption), then only Oracle can give you the > license to redistribute the presentation. If that's a second person "you", I don't particularly want to, but I can give useful stuff a home if it has a suitable licence and isn't readily available otherwise. It might not be easy to find if it's in Wayback as it's been referenced at several different URLs. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
