Re: good news for my PhD

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Mittwoch, 18. März 2009 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Graham Percival
>
> <address@hidden> 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.

When I did an internship a decade ago in the US, the contract also had this 
clause that anything I wrote during my time there (even in my spare time, on 
my own computer etc.) would be long to the company. Right before signing, I 
talked this over with the responsible person there, and we added a disclaimer 
that any work done on some explicitly listed projects were explicitly excluded 
from that clause. That was absolutely no problem for them, and I had the legal 
certainty that I could work on it without fear. I can't imagine that this 
would be a problem for any university, either.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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Reinhold Kainhofer, address@hidden, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
 * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
 * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886
 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org
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