On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 01:52:37AM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 16/03/2011 00:54, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:37:38PM -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
> >> On 3/15/2011 8:11 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
> >>
> >>> FSF legal could solve these problems in a minute. Don't shove a
> >>> blanket
> >>> dislaimer for all employees at the employer. Give them two options to
> >>> sign...one blanket and one for only the specific employee. I have little
> >>> sympathy for the copyright office on this as they preconfigured the
> >>> paperwork to cause this exact problem.
> >> Well I must say I have some sympathy for the FSF's position here. It is
> >> SO much simpler if an organization will sign a blanket disclaimer, since
> >> then each employee does not have to go through a lot of nonsense.
> >>
> >> Can you give a clue as to why UC objects to signing the blanket
> >> disclaimer. I dont have too much sympthy for universities that
> >> try to desperately protect their "intellectual property rights"!
> >> Universities should be about open discourse and sharing of ideas.
> >
> > I believe UC's objection was to the third paragraph to which they
> > commented...
> >
> > As an academic institution, with an enormity of faculty, students, and
> > staff
> > for which we might obtain rights in, I'm a bit concerned that I might give
> > up
> > rights that I have no way of predicting I might have.
> >
> > A fair enough objection, no?
>
> Yes, but at the same time, their desire to take their time to carefully
> study and be sure they have fully understood the legal ramifications of any
> arrangement they might enter into is *exactly* identical and symmetrical to
> the FSF's lawyers' desire to do the exact same thing, is it not?
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
>
Huh? I believe UC would accepted the entirety of the disclaimer if it only
applied to me. FSF brings this problem onto themselves by not offering both a
blanket and individual disclaimer. If both existed, there would be a lot
fewer revisions sent back to them for the FSF lawyers to review.
Jack
