Open Source: you're doing it wrong - the Pyjamas hijack

[Cameron Simpson]

On 10May2012 10:27, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
| On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| > Google was a right PITA but eventually I found this
| > http://www.legalcentre.co.uk/intellectual-property/guide/intellectual-property-and-employees/
| >  It appears to contradict what you've said above, or have I misread it?  E.g
| > "Under the (Patents) Act (1977), there is a presumption that an employer
| > will own the patent of an invention made by its employee if the invention
| > was made in the employee’s normal or specifically assigned duties and
| > either, an invention might reasonably be expected to result from such duties
| > or, the employee has a special obligation to further the employee’s
| > interests, arising from the nature of those duties and responsibilities and
| > the employee’s status."
| 
| That's patents... intellectual property goes by other rules I think.

Patents _are_ IP. You may mean "copyright", also IP. Copyright goes to
the author, except that most companies require employees to assign it to
the company, including the Berne Convention "moral rights" (such as
attribution).

Cheers,
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