Hmmm. I did work at CMU last year on a Journal article. It was based on about 3 years of research work. The article was completed, submitted for review, and accepted. CMU required that I sign over the copyright to them. Springer required that I sign over the copyright to them, despite an agreement between CMU and Springer. It turned out that the agreement was between CMU and Springer USA but the Journal is published by Springer Europe.
Ultimately the two lawyers could not agree and my Journal article was withdrawn during production. CMU now holds the copyright. Three years of work and I have nothing, no rights and no publication. As a major advocate of Literate Programming I was hoping to publish a follow-on paper that included the actual source code. Why bother? Tim Daly On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 12:20 -0700, William Stein wrote: > > > On Sunday, October 16, 2011, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Bill, > > are you sure that you have signed away to your employer rights to > your ideas ? > > Technically Bill only said that Uni's consider employee work > intellectual property, but he did not say they consider it *their* > intellectual property... > > > While some not so great universities are just degree-selling > businesses, > > last time I had to obtain a permission from my employer for > publishing something, was still in Soviet Union! > > So I really don't see how results of work done by a faculty member > are university property. > > > > > > -- > > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel > +unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel > +unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
