Klarinet Archive - Posting 000208.txt from 2009/11

From: "Peter Gentry" <peter.gentry@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Musicians Protest use of canned music...by Texas Ballet Theatre...in the new multi-million dollar Winspear Hall
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:30:50 -0500

Hmm sadly in my experience Engineers and Scientists are required to sign
over all rights as part of their contract of employment not allowed to file
patents except under the company name with additional restrictions on having
"ideas" in your own time.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Nichols [mailto:mrn.clarinet@-----.com]
> Sent: 30 November 2009 02:02
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Musicians Protest use of canned music...by Texas Ballet
> Theatre...in the new multi-million dollar Winspear Hall
>
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Forest Aten <forestaten@-----.com> wrote:
> > Fred....
> >
> > The point is....the work the musicians do....has value.
>
> That's right. It's intellectual property--a capital asset.
>
>
> For instance, engineers who work as salaried employees of companies
> and who develop patentable inventions for the company are (at least at
> most big companies) typically paid a bonus for the intellectual
> property rights they create and hand over to the company. A lot of
> those ideas that turn into patents start out as solutions to design
> problems the engineers were already tasked with solving as part of
> their normal duties. But a patent is more valuable than a mere
> design, because it means you can collect royalties from competitors
> (or sue them and get damages--a major source of revenue for some
> patent owners).
>

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