Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:05:29 -0600 "Richard W. Hemingway" <rheming@ibm.net> wrote: > 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 > -------------------------- > Dick Hemingway > Plano, TX