Re: Re: "University as author?"

For a university professor, this "done on company time" idea is a chimerical concept. "Company time" for a professor is when his or her classes are in session, his or her scheduled office hours, and scheduled events such as departmental meetings. Of course, if you are department chair or head of an institute, your work schedule is much more constrained, but many professors come and go as they please outside their specific teaching and research obligations.
 If a professor prepares Powerpoint for tomorrow's class at 3:00 a.m. or works on the next great textbook at noon, how does that relate to the university's interest in his or her work?  I work at a major midwestern university, and have many a time walked down the halls of professors' offices at various times of the business day, and most of the offices are dark. I have not noticed a variation among hard science versus humanities.
 I just don't see how "company time" illuminates this discussion. Professors just don't work rigid 9 to 5 schedules. Would someone please defne "company time" for a university professor?
 /rich

 On 8/15/05, Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
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> "done on company time" is one of the factors to consider to determine
> whether it was within the scope of employment or whether the writer is an
> employee, not an independent test in and of itself.
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Received on Wed Aug 17 2005 - 01:30:01 GMT