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Re: fsf paperwork?
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:37:38PM -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
>> On 3/15/2011 8:11 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>>
>>> ? ? FSF legal could solve these problems in a minute. Don't shove a blanket
>>> dislaimer for all employees at the employer. Give them two options to
>>> sign...one blanket and one for only the specific employee. I have little
>>> sympathy for the copyright office on this as they preconfigured the
>>> paperwork to cause this exact problem.
>>
>> Well I must say I have some sympathy for the FSF's position here. It is
>> SO much simpler if an organization will sign a blanket disclaimer, since
>> then each employee does not have to go through a lot of nonsense.
>>
>> Can you give a clue as to why UC objects to signing the blanket
>> disclaimer. I dont have too much sympthy for universities that
>> try to desperately protect their "intellectual property rights"!
>> Universities should be about open discourse and sharing of ideas.
>
> I believe UC's objection was to the third paragraph to which they commented...
>
> As an academic institution, with an enormity of faculty, students, and staff
> for which we might obtain rights in, I'm a bit concerned that I might give up
> rights that I have no way of predicting I might have.
>
> A fair enough objection, no?
Yup.