<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks for drawing my attention to this interesting paper, Marc. I think it clearly shows that universities have often held back from claiming rights over academic writings based on pragmatic reflections - ("universities tend to be averse to litigation, especially against their own faculty members.They are loath to disturb institutional traditions and spark uprisings on their campuses and in their communities"). This was my main point - and one of Prof Oppenheim's. <br>
<br>Maybe I was too affirmative in saying that "most" academic work is work for hire - as the Strauss paper shows, this is being disputed by a number of actors in a number of ways. But, as you say, without a definitive conclusion..<br>
<br></div>Best,<br><br></div>Chris Zielinski<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 February 2014 22:21, Couture Marc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc.couture@teluq.ca" target="_blank">marc.couture@teluq.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Well, I wouldn’t be so affirmative. There is also something called the “academic exception”, according to which the work-for-hire doctrine may not apply in the
academe. Much has been written in the past decade about this issue, with no definitive conclusion; see, for instance, this recent paper:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Strauss, N. S. (2011). Anything but academic: How copyright’s work-for-hire doctrine affects professors, graduate students, and K-12 teachers in the information age.
<i>Richmond Journal of Law & Technology, 18</i>(1). <a href="http://jolt.richmond.edu/v18i1/article4.pdf" target="_blank">
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