Re: University's rights

On Wed, 21 May 1997, Mary Pate <pate[_at_]invocon.com> wrote:
>
> Under government contracting principles, if a company receives a
> government contract and then wants to have a university do some work
> for it as a subcontractor or grant recepient, do I need to incorporate
> a "work-made-for-hire" clause with regards to the information that the
> university furnishes me in order to have the copyright to it?
>
> Also, suppose the federal agency that initially contracted my company
> to do the work specifically restricts publication/dissemination of any
> results obtained from the work, doesn't that clause flow down to the
> university as my subcontractor?

First thing you ought to do is make sure that the university's contract incorporates the federal one you have.

You need to be very clear with respect to the University about who owns copyrightable info, and it should match what you agreed with the government.

Harold Federow
<hfederow[_at_]u.washington.edu> Received on Thu May 22 1997 - 23:39:49 GMT