[Year 12 IPM] A quick before-the-exam question

[Charmaine Taylor]

Given that we have to pay for the laptops, I reckon we can use them for 
our own private purposes.

Charmaine Taylor
Sunbury Downs College

Cameron Bell wrote:

> But it doesn't purely depend on the time it was created. Teachers 
> using laptops etc supplied by employers can't claim it as personal 
> work even if it is done on their own time.? (Especially if the work is 
> using educational licensed versions of the software.)
> (Please correct if wrong)
> Cameron
>
> Andrew Grimshaw wrote:
>
>> I would say the question is a dud  - it does not specify when 
>> software was developed.
>>
>> In the company's time then the company owns it, but if done in the 
>> worker's own time then they own it
>>
>> -andrew grimshaw
>> colac college
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Richardson" 
>> <keithcr at fastmail.fm>
>> To: "List IP&M" <ipm at edulists.com.au>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:17 PM
>> Subject: [Year 12 IPM] A quick before-the-exam question
>>
>>
>>> A question from the prac exam was:
>>>
>>> "A young innovative programmer working for SoftEASI (a dynamic software
>>> development company) has developed a unique virtual reality game.
>>> Explain to whom the rights to the game belong under the Copyright
>>> Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000."
>>>
>>> The answer claims that because it was undertaken during working hours,
>>> SoftEASI owns the rights to the software, to which I disagree. Unless
>>> the software had some connection to the work being done normally, the
>>> author has copyright over it.
>>>
>>> As an analogy, if there is a photojournalist for a newspaper out taking
>>> photos at a sporting tournament, if they take out their mobile phone to
>>> take a personal photo, the company does not own it, the author does.
>>>
>>> What do others think?
>>> Keith Richardson
>>> IPM List Moderator
>>> Head of ICT, Leibler Yavneh College
>>> Elsternwick
>>> Ph: 03.9528.4911
>>> k.richardson at yavneh.vic.edu.au
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