[Foundation-l] Intellectual property policy for open organisations

[John Vandenberg]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:55 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Roan provide some info re this at

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-January/057377.html

It would be nice if these elements of the WMF contract was placed on meta.

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John Vandenberg