I am imagining a small "yes you can study here" sort of a market.
A narrow market, but they can spend a lot. I'm more concerned
about being told I can't distribute my stuff than I am about the
University making money from it.<br>
Since you put it that way, though, as far as the graphical environment,
I suppose that's no different than owning a program written in Java.<br>
<br>
Our school's music director replied:<br>
"UArts currently has no stated policy on copyright/patent ownership of
student or faculty work. One was being developed a few years ago, but
it has not been implemented (and that version actually had students and
faculty retaining all rights to their creations)."<br>
<br>
(is it wrong to post his words?) He is devoted to understanding copyright, too.<br>
Anyway, I take it any rule there is must be along the lines of the
poetry contest rule, where they are allowed one publishing but the
copyright never changes.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<span class="sg">
Chuckk</span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/13/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Wilder</b> <<a href="mailto:greg@gregwilder.com">greg@gregwilder.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 13:33 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:<br>> But then someone told me today about some fine print clause somewhere<br>> that says University of the Arts owns anything someone creates while<br>> they're here.
<br><br>I doubt *very* seriously if this is true.<br><br>> Luckily, since no one here understands either the tuning systems or<br>> the inner workings of a PD patch, them knowing what I had in mind<br>> doesn't help them if they don't actually have it.
<br><br>And how would it help them anyway? What sort of market do you imagine<br>for what you're trying to create?<br><br>> So what I'm wondering is, is there such a thing as ownership with a PD<br>> patch?<br><br>
PD is an graphical object oriented programming environment. If you<br>create a "patch" in PD, you're really building a unique program using<br>the PD objects and interface. While you can't "own" PD, I would think
<br>that you can certainly claim ownership of your unique implementation of<br>the environment that PD provides.<br><br>Kinda like making music using Ardour or Hydrogen - you own the music,<br>even if you didn't create the original sound libraries and the program
<br>code. Or better yet - you could think of it like coding inside an IDE.<br><br>Best,<br>Greg<br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters."
<br>-Friedrich Nietzsche, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"