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- From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- To: <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Intellectual Expropriation at Cambridge
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 01:18:41 +0200 (CEST)
Cambridge University has decided to assert ownership of intellectual
property (IP) generated by researchers and employees starting on
Jan. 1, 2003, if IP work is created during "the normal course of
[an employee's] duties,"
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2120183,00.html
Ross Andersson, author of the TPCA FAQ and other good texts on security
and civil rights implications, is investigating the matter:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/expropriation.html
In Germany this kind of thing has been made obligatory by law recently:
http://swpat.ffii.org/players/bmbf/
--
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-12789608
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
120,000 signatures against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/
- Intellectual Expropriation at Cambridge, PILCH Hartmut
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