On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Jack Howarth <howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu> 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?
Yup.
