8th April 2011, 01:43 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:I think diggers should purely see what they produce as copyright (made to see actually).
You keep using the term copyright as if it's a fixed and tangible thing. It's a right to control the reproduction/copying/etc of something you have produced. What a digger produces may be information that once put into a fixed form of some sort as noted in another post such as photographs or writing carries a copyright, but that copyright isn't necessarily theirs as also stated. Work produced when employed by a company normally belongs to them, and so does the copyright to the work.
Quote:[FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]The document appears to make it clear that via a director institute professor that the University of York wants a non exclusive licence from me. Without it they will not make available my reports over the ether. Don’t worry as an expert in watching briefs for extensions for little old ladies (I like to yodel the last part) the world is not missing anything and in fact I have uploaded reports to the university. But they want my signature. And I am still thinking about it. might I like a specific clause that if at any time I want and for what ever reason I can remove from their university and all its whatevers all and every copy of my documents?
Erm, that's the point of the non-exclusive license. You're simply giving them permission to distribute your copyrighted material, but you are retaining the copyright so you can certainly cancel the license you've given them. You haven't signed your copyright over, merely given them permission to distribute the material.
Now, IANAL, but neither, it seems are you. I'd check carefully to see if you're insisting on a clause that's simply a reiteration of what's already in the agreement.
As for the online availability of grey literature, etc, it's probably being distributed under a license such as the one you are being asked to sign. I doubt they're making a 'living' out of making such things accessible, but you can ask them, and then you'd know rather than making assumptions.
-Su
Prime practitioner of headology, with a side order of melting glass with a stern glare.