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From the OP 'Sadly though, due to concerns from my employer regarding intellectual property and similarities in projects I've worked on, I've been asked to tak
by MrScruff 14y ago
From the OP
'Sadly though, due to concerns from my employer regarding intellectual property and similarities in projects I've worked on, I've been asked to take down the site.'
We have no way of assessing the validity of these concerns from what has been said. If the company feels the open source project contains work they have funded, and don't want to release, then it is their right to ask him to withdraw it.
Also, unless Nick is primarily driven by open source participation there's nothing to say they will eventually lose him.
- manmal 14y agoNobody argued that it is not their right. Of course it is, or Nick would have left it up at Github. It's their right, but it's not "right".
- MrScruff 14y agoI think it's more of a grey area than that. Certainly I can imagine a situation where the overlap was insignificant and this was an overreach by the employer, but there is currently no evidence to suggest that.
- jasonlotito 14y agoOne could also say that in this case, Nick should have discussed this with the employer. It seems as if he was aware he should have, and by not doing so, the situation is no worse off than it would have been.
- gngeal 14y agoWas he also asked by his employer to take down his "final year university project" that this was supposed to be? That sounds a little bit incongruous to me. Or was the "final year university project" also somehow related to his job output preceding in the creation of said final year project?
- alexkus 14y agoThe IP of my final year (UK) university project belongs to the University not me, and not to the company that was sponsoring me for my final year.
- gngeal 14y agoThat just shows how ridiculous the laws in UK/US are. Around here, what you're describing would be expressly against the law.
- alexkus 14y agoIt would be helpful if you were more specific than just "Around here".
- gngeal 14y ago.cz
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- em1t 14y agoI think it's about the same thing in Sweden (the student has the rights). At the sime time, there are two different rights; copyright and "usage right" (not sure if that last thing is translated correctly), which means that you own the stuff you've created, but you can transfer the right of using it to someone else.
- fakeer 14y agoEven if you are a fully paid scholar at univ? I mean not even a penny in scholarship at an institution? I don't think it will be such an umbrella rule. Is it?
- nagrom 14y agoAre you sure? I employ PhD students to work on commercial products and there is a strict rule in the university that any work done by the student is owned by the student. We are granted an irrevocable, fully transferable licence to use their work, but the student is not locked out from doing whatever they like with the stuff that they did. I'd be surprised if that was not the same for undergraduates - although I am aware that university boards are becoming very greedy with respect to I.P.
- rmc 14y agoPeople aren't arguing that it's illegal or incorrect for them to take it down, or that they don't have the authority here. They are arguing that it's a stupid move.
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- bradleyland 14y agoIt's also possible that they (he and his employer) performed the "related work" on commission and have signed over IP rights to a client. In this case, open sourcing the work would expose them to liability from the client.