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Re: Are Microsoft¹s patent lawyers really this dumb? |
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Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:49:06 -0400 |
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In article <address@hidden>, David Kastrup <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Kurt Häusler <address@hidden> writes:
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> > On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:36:20 +1200, Jonathan Walker wrote:
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> >> If *you* own the copyrights, then *you* can choose what license you want
> >> to release the software under.
> >>
> >> If your company owns the copyrights, then your company can choose what
> >> license it wants to release the software under.
> >>
> >> Copyright ownership is the important thing - not patents.
> >
> > Well that's an issue in itself, I am now unsure who owns it.
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> The author, unless he has a contractual default transferring ownership
> of his works in company time to the employer.
Or if it's a "work for hire", i.e. writing the software is part of your
job, in which case the employer is normally the owner.
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Barry Margolin, address@hidden
Arlington, MA
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