Re: digital images

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Robert Cumbow <rcumbow[_at_]grahamdunn.com> wrote:
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> I would be astonished if a software company claimed ownership of the
> copyright in a work created by a user of their software. On second
> thought, nothing would astonish me any more. Better read the
> shrinkwrap license and the manual that came with the software.

I thought that the prevailing corporate attitude about digital products was, we own everything. When I asked the copyright officer of a major university whether that university (not my current one) would make IP claims on a certain type of faculty work, his perfectly serious response was: The University owns everything its faculty think, say, or do. (Yes, he said "think.") Nonsense obviously -- but such nonsense has a scary way of becoming incorporated.

Jim Porter

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