Discuss:Government, Politics, Policy:Intellectual Property and Copyrights
From da Vinci Concept
Intellectual Property and Copyrights
sunny - Mon Dec 15 17:53:21 2003
This are some thoughts on the protection of intellectual property for this website and its closely related components. I'm looking for input here as well as an attempt at a draft when more specific details of the business plan are worked out. Please comment in this area, especially if you have training or ideas on these matters.
This site, in the near future, will require legal protection from and for its members and clients. Within the scope of online publishing company (Poetic Publishing) this site should disclaim any rights to submitted work that does not fall under the scope of another agreement or contract. In the problem solving venture posed (the foundation and granting source, daVinci Concept Inc. and its means to market, Definite Industries Inc.), said company(s) should retain rights to solutions or means, intellectual property, as well as the right not to diseminate the solution if there is some other imperitive, economic, political, moral or otherwise, that would prevent the company from disclosing said intellectual property.
The contracts made must make it clear to the client that the company cannot sell solutions based upon client protected information, even if the client in question backs out of the contract. In order to pull a profit from such 'botch jobs', the means to solution should, when possible, be intellectual property in itself, to always act as a profit creating portion to the solution. This 'means to a solution' as intellectual property might be protected by creating and sealing before client proprietary material is disclosed, preventing proprietary material from entering a profit driven solution. Specific guidelines will have to be followed to either prevent or encourage the problem solving team from making use of proprietary information.
It may also be that the problem statement itself is non-trivial and discloses more information than should be used in a freely sold solution. In this case, it may be that our company(s) can use this information as a direction for determining other problem solutions.
It should be that regardless of the type of classification, some portion of the problem or solution is usefull and even profitable. If no adequate case can be made, the problem should not be addressed in anything but a cursory manner identifying the failings of its context or identification of required future means to its solution.
The company proposed, like any sucessfull business, should always cover its costs and add to its capital gain. The only exceptions to this would be charitable solutions, long term financial gains, and perhaps internal problem solving and the building through research useable intellectual property.
It must remain clear to all parties, that once the contract has been fullfilled, that the company has rights to use part or all of the solution as a resource for solving other solutions. Given that said solution should not infringe the clients right to intellectual property. The solution might remain proprietary, even among employees of the company, and guidelines must exist for the continued future use of this information.
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--sunny Mon Dec 15 17:53:21 2003
