From: Deborah McGuinness (dlm@ksl.stanford.edu)
Date: 10/18/01
Dan Connolly wrote: > Deborah McGuinness wrote: > > > > on the [party] below - does that mean that I sign it as an individual? > > AS WELL AS asking someone at stanford to sign it as "member company"? > > Stanford's not a member, are they? Oops.. yes, they are, I see. yes - i initiated the membership process at stanford. i am not sure that all the i's are dotted and t's crossed on the joining but the intent is that we are or will be a member asap. > Anyway... they're only relevant if they have/own rights in DAML+OIL, > or if they want to be one of the submitting organizations > along with lucent. > > Is your work on DAML+OIL your own? or does it belong to stanford? > or maybe to DARPA? this is a somewhat trickey question. DARPA has paid for much of the work i generated on daml+oil and they have a non-exclusive right to use the work forever. Stanford pays me and if for example, something was patentable, then they have a significant chunk of the patent royalties (i also have a portion of the patent royalties and my lab - Knowledge Systems Lab also has a chunk). Thus, i *guess* the answer is to some extent stanford (possibly also ksl separately) and i "own" the work but darpa has right to use. This is probably the typical university scenario (except some may not have the lab involved). I *think* the typical company scenario is the company that pays you owns the work - at least that was true for me when i was at att. I did not even sign my own copyright releases there. i sign my own copyright releases at stanford though. > -- > Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ -- Deborah L. McGuinness Knowledge Systems Laboratory Gates Computer Science Building, 2A Room 241 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9020 email: dlm@ksl.stanford.edu URL: http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm (voice) 650 723 9770 (stanford fax) 650 725 5850 (computer fax) 801 705 0941
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