[Year 12 IPM] A quick before-the-exam question

[Andrew Grimshaw]

Gee we need a copyright lawyer for this one I think!

I know a few teachers who have published books or contributed to textbooks 
with material written on their laptops and as far as I know none of them 
give a cent to DEET fro m their royalties!

Anyway, in the question there is no mention of the equipment the employee is 
using so I still assert that the question does not have the necessary 
details

andrew grimshaw
colac college


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cameron Bell" <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au>
To: "Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management 
Teachers'Mailing List" <ipm at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] A quick before-the-exam question


> But it doesn't purely depend on the time it was created. Teachers using 
> laptops etc supplied by employers can't claim it as personal work even if 
> it is done on their own time.? (Especially if the work is using 
> educational licensed versions of the software.)
> (Please correct if wrong)
> Cameron
>
> Andrew Grimshaw wrote:
>> I would say the question is a dud  - it does not specify when software 
>> was developed.
>>
>> In the company's time then the company owns it, but if done in the 
>> worker's own time then they own it
>>
>> -andrew grimshaw
>> colac college
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Richardson" 
>> <keithcr at fastmail.fm>
>> To: "List IP&M" <ipm at edulists.com.au>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:17 PM
>> Subject: [Year 12 IPM] A quick before-the-exam question
>>
>>
>>> A question from the prac exam was:
>>>
>>> "A young innovative programmer working for SoftEASI (a dynamic software
>>> development company) has developed a unique virtual reality game.
>>> Explain to whom the rights to the game belong under the Copyright
>>> Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000."
>>>
>>> The answer claims that because it was undertaken during working hours,
>>> SoftEASI owns the rights to the software, to which I disagree. Unless
>>> the software had some connection to the work being done normally, the
>>> author has copyright over it.
>>>
>>> As an analogy, if there is a photojournalist for a newspaper out taking
>>> photos at a sporting tournament, if they take out their mobile phone to
>>> take a personal photo, the company does not own it, the author does.
>>>
>>> What do others think?
>>> Keith Richardson
>>> IPM List Moderator
>>> Head of ICT, Leibler Yavneh College
>>> Elsternwick
>>> Ph: 03.9528.4911
>>> k.richardson at yavneh.vic.edu.au
>>>
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