[Foundation-l] Intellectual property policy for open organisations

[John Vandenberg]

There are an increasing number of organisations which have indicated
that their output is Creative Commons by default, however there are
not as many that have a public IP policy which clearly allows staff to
publish "their" work.

i.e. We have moved from the IP policy being the stick used to prevent
openness, and the "work for hire" and "publish process" are the next
frontier.

A few staff at University of Canberra (UC) have written an IP policy
proposal which clearly gives staff ownership of their work, and
requires CC licensing if their staff use organisational infrastructure
to create their work.

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/University_of_Canberra/Proposed_policy_on_intellectual_property

Otago Polytechnic adopted an IP policy like that in 2007.

http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic/Intellectual_property

Are there other examples, within or outside academia, where the
organisation empowers its staff by providing a policy which clarifies
when "work for hire" principle is enforced in this murky world of
online collaboration?

Does the WMF have an intellectual property policy for works created by
WMF employees?
Employees edit and upload using free licenses under their own name,
but does the copyright belong to the employee or to the WMF?

Is anyone in our community going to:

Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

Washington College of Law
American University, Washington, DC
August 25-27, 2011

http://infojustice.org/public-events/global-congress

-- 
John Vandenberg