research administration listservs MDaniel@xxxxxx 13 Oct 1998 08:31 EST
The web site of the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) has a partial list of electronic discussion groups for research administrators. Go to the address of http://www.ncura.edu/postaward/listserv/default.html. ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: [Fwd: IP policy wherein inventor owns rights?] Author: Richard Tomlin <xxxxxx@NCL.AC.UK> Date: 10/13/98 11:24 AM Received: from cheviot.ncl.ac.uk (cheviot.ncl.ac.uk [128.240.233.51]) by oddy.ncl.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.x-cf revision 3 for SunOS 4.1.x) with ESMTP id JAA16137; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:43:29 +0100 Received: from oddy.ncl.ac.uk by cheviot.ncl.ac.uk id <xxxxxx@cheviot.ncl.ac.uk> (8.7.6/ for ncl.ac.uk) with SMTP; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:43:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from ncl.ac.uk (plato121.ncl.ac.uk [128.240.174.82]) by oddy.ncl.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.x-cf revision 3 for SunOS 4.1.x) with ESMTP id JAA16116; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:43:12 +0100 Message-ID: <xxxxxx@ncl.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:42:40 +0100 From: Richard Tomlin <xxxxxx@ncl.ac.uk> Organization: Newcastle University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: xxxxxx@SMTP.USI.EDU CC: "xxxxxx@hrinet.org" <xxxxxx@hrinet.org> Subject: Re: IP policy wherein inventor owns rights? References: <xxxxxx@techaccess.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:51:24 -0400 > From: "Harrel, Peggy F." <xxxxxx@SMTP.USI.EDU> > Subject: Intell. Prop. policy request > > Help! I am looking for intellectual property policies that have as > their > basic premise that the creator of intellectual property owns the rights > to the work, except of course when there are prior agreements or > external > funding, or other special conditions. This is pretty much the reverse > of > the basic premise of most intellectual property policies. Does anyone > have such a policy, whether approved or in the approval process? Does > anyone know of an institution that has a policy that is remotely similar > to such a creature? Can you point me in a direction where I could find > such a policy? > > I am working with a committee that is redesigning--and probably > redefining--intellectual property rights on our campus, and the > committee > are seeking model policies or parts of policies that they can use to > substantiate their position. I know of no better group to ask than > Resadm-L. I believe we have the combined expertise to answer any > question! I appreciate your help. Dear Peggy Yes, I can help you. Cambridge University in the UK operates a policy based on the presumption that academic staff have initial ownership of the IP they create. Oxford has a somewhat muddled version of the same thing. However, in German, Sweden and Finland (probably also Norway and Denmark) academics have a legal right to ownership of their IPRs. In Germany this is guaranteed by the Constitution under the Wissenschaftsfreiheit clause. Although such a policy may seem odd to many of us, in large parts of the world people find they can live with it very well. I can provide more information and contacts if you would find it helpful. I'll be at SRA in Philly on Saturday and Sunday next, so maybe we could even chat about it if you are there. If you want to contact colleagues in Europe, the admin-research and EARMA-all lists are useful. To join, send a message to xxxxxx@mailbase.ac.uk with the text 'join <listname> <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>. By the way, how do i join your list? Colleagues on both sides of the pond may find it useful to have a list of relevant lists so we can encourage cross membership and an international sharing of experience. If you can point me at the US lists, I'll do a list of European lists. Best wishes R -- Richard Tomlin | tel: (+44)(0)191 222 6820 Centre for Higher Education Research | fax: (+44)(0)191 222 8170 Joseph Cowen House | e-mail: xxxxxx@ncl.ac.uk University of Newcastle | http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nrit Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK