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Does a university own software written by students?
I just posted to Quora in response to If I study at a university and I create software in my own time, does the university own the licensing to my software? There’s no good general answer, since things vary by … Continue reading
Posted in IP, Open Source
Tagged copyright, data, invention, open source, ownership, software, student
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What the NIH says about Bayh-Dole, 2
We are working through the NIH’s most recent misrepresentation of the Bayh-Dole Act. In the first part of this effort, we looked at the NIH’s bungling of the basic premise of Bayh-Dole and the concept of practical application. Bayh-Dole’s first … Continue reading
What the NIH says about Bayh-Dole, 1
The NIH has published comments on the NIST changes to the regulations that implement the Bayh-Dole Act and the standard patent rights clause. Jamie Love at Knowledge Ecology International calls out in a tweet a passage in the “Background” section in … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Open Source, Policy
Tagged Bayh-Dole, crock, NIH, Stanford v Roche, subject invention
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Who Owns Digital Learning Resources?–6
Let’s come back around to Hal Plotkin’s question–who owns digital learning resources? Plotkin wants the answer to be: certainly not the university bureaucrats aiming to “commercialize” everything and therefore putting everything behind a paywall. That makes sense. Bureaucrats don’t have … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Freedom, Open Source, Policy
Tagged Department of Education, digital learning resources
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Who Owns Digital Learning Resources?–5
There’s a basic problem with federal grant support for research. I don’t know if the Department of Education has avoided this problem, but I will put it out there. If a federal agency supports both research and maintenance of contract deliverables, … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Freedom, Open Source, Policy, Projects
Tagged Department of Education, licensing, open
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Who Owns Digital Learning Resources?–4
Now let’s deal with “digital” educational works in the context of university intellectual property claims. This is something I’ve spent a couple of decades dealing with. The Department of Education published its final rule in January 2017, requiring open licensing … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Freedom, Open Source, Policy, Projects
Tagged Bayh-Dole, Department of Education, licensing, open
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AAU, APLU, and others aim to “bolster” federal technology transfer, 2
We are working through advice offered to NIST by various higher education associations on how to improve federal technology transfer by funding without oversight the “technology transfer” programs of non-federal institutions. If the gist is all you need, then don’t … Continue reading
On Crossing the Commons
I was in a conversation with some folks associated with the University of Alaska and wrote the following bit about my past work. With a bit of editing for a different context, and the usual expansion to flesh things out … Continue reading
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Choose Your Open Source License
There’s a useful guide at GitHub for choosing an open source license. The guide presents a developer with three distinct options: These capture three common, primary concerns that show up once one has made the decision to be open with … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, Bozonet, Commons, IP, Open Source
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