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The Lost Packet wrote:
Phil Da Lick! wrote:
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So let me get this straight, the /inventor/ does not "own"
his own idea?
Not when he's technically employed by a university and
inventing on /their/ time.
Employed by a university? That's a novel interpretation of the
learning process.
it's part of the student contract, and it's perfectly legal. If
you're
There atre lots of things that are "perfectly legal". That
doesn't make them morally right.
But this isn't one of those things. If someone is hired by and
works for a company. And that company pays the persons salary and
provides them with the tools (computers, labs, etc) that enables
them to invent something. Then anything that the person invents
while working for the employer belongs to the company.... and not
the person.
It's insane to think that if a company like Pfizer spends millions
in research and building a state-of-the-art laboratory that when
some researchers invents a new drug... on their dollar working on
company time, it's ridiculous to think that the invention
"belongs" to the person and not the company that financed the
discovery of the drug.
All well and good but universities and schools are not companies.
In most ways they are. They are in the /business/ of education and
many of these schools make billions of dollars in tax-free income.
And they don't have to pay property tax on their land/buildings
either in most states. Check out the massive stockpile of cash that
a school like Harvard University has. It enough to put most
"companies" to shame. Education can be a very lucrative and
profitable business.
Other than that most larger universities do have a "research center"
or whatever they want to call it. They employ doctors and scientists
and function just like a normal private sector company would.
See Homer's reply. Educational institutions are not companies.
Students are not employees.
I couldn't care less what Homer's ridiculous point of view is. The
very fact that universities are grabbing patents and attempting to
profit from them shows that they are indeed functioning like a
company. Education is a big business and these "companies" function
and act just like a company. They grab patents in order to generate
additional revenue.
You keep claiming that they shouldn't do this (take patents) because
that's what a company would do and claim they're not a company.
Well... the fact that they behave exactly like a corporation pretty
much makes them a corporation doesn't it?
And the fact that educational establishments are funded by the taxpayer
should mean that they shouldn't act like companies.
actually, if you do some digging around your local college you'd find
that they are funded more and more by corporate sponsorship, student
fees and patent licensing than by taxes.
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