Off topic - who owns ( was RE: [Leica] Ansel Adams, Yosemite NP, and Moonscapes)

["Richard W. Hemingway" <rheming@ibm.net>]

 Walt,

>Sorry for the rambling, but these questions bounce around
>occasionally......are salaried university employees ALWAYS employed?
>When not at work, who owns their stuff?  What if they use the 
>office/phone at work?  Don't they all?(yes) and what about
>"instructional" photos, taken on their film?  If you haven't signed 
 
Yes, these are good questions.  I ran into this at various universities.  I
had no problems with outside law practice (yes, I am also a lawyer) - but
did with the books I wrote.  At SMU they talked about their ownership of
compensated research and writings of the faculty.  I left in 1967 and
nothing was done by then and I don't know if they ever develped a policy on
this.  At the other law schools at which I taught - I was careful to do
everything at home and use my own supplies.  The question never came up.
the only 'problem' I might have had was use of the law library.  However,
since this is a public facility I didn't believe I had a problem.
Actually, for the last number of years I was on 'Westlaw,' a computer
on-line research facility (free since I was one of their authors) and down
loaded everything at home.  I had one of the first Hewlett Packard jet
printers - it was a monster, caused the lights to go down when I used it
(kind of like an execution) but it could crank out about 8 pages a minute,
day in and day out.  I printed ream after ream of cases.  This is different
from your stated problem, but similar.

I believe that the universities started being sensitive to this situation
after gatoraide was developed by faculty members at one of the universities
(Florida???) and made a mint of money on it. (this is not a problem with
what I wrote!! <gr>)

Dick
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Dick Hemingway
Plano, TX