[cc-community] seeking advice

Claude Almansi claude.almansi at bluewin.ch
Tue Feb 3 04:03:04 EST 2009


Hi Jessie and All

Between your lines, Jessie (though I am not a lawyer so please wait
for confirmation/corrections from lawyers on this list):

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Sutherland, Jessie C
<jcsutherland at jibc.ca> wrote:
> (...)
>
> The situation I am in the midsts of:
>
> -        I worked for several years developing a project and have recently
> partnered with a larger institution. We are now working out an agreement
> around copyright, ownership, intellectual property. I would like to learn
> what agreements people have made in similar situations using cc or a
> combination of cc and other approaches.

Copyright - under whatever license - would apply only to your texts
describing the project, not to the concept of the project. Ideas and
concepts cannot be protected. So as to:

>
> The larger institution is interested in keeping the copyright given the fact
> that I am now their employee. I am interested in keeping the copyright given
> the fact that I have worked on developing the project for several years.

Have you already published - even in discussion lists or on a blog -
the description of your project? In this case, this description is
already under your copyright.
>
> Has anyone out there worked out a creative solution.

It depends on what you want to use your copyright for, commercially or
otherwise.
>
> The project involves research, courses, and community-based dialogues.

Again, the main issue, as far as copyright is concerned, is whether
you have published them. And the choice of a license depends of the
use you want to make of the texts describing them.

Best

-- 
Claude Almansi


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