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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:48:00 -0600
From:      "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
To:        Kevin Brunelle <kruptos@netzero.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: C style continued.... (Craig and Terry)
Message-ID:  <20010123224800.B88688@peorth.iteration.net>
In-Reply-To: <3A6E03C7.79F32AAE@netzero.net>; from kruptos@netzero.net on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 05:20:55PM -0500
References:  <3.0.6.32.20010123135847.009c9400@mail85.pair.com> <XFMail.010123120822.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20010123125210.A21362@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3A6E03C7.79F32AAE@netzero.net>

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On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 05:20:55PM -0500, Kevin Brunelle scribbled:
| > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:08:22PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:

Any intellectual product produced by any student is, by default,
the student's.  Your English professor would have to ask your 
permission before publishing your paper, and your CS professor
is no exception to that.  The only time when the product is
actually the school's, is when you sign a contract with the
school signing over the rights (usually for a research grant).
i.e. You only lose your property/intellectual rights when
you sign a piece of legal document that says you want to do so.

Forcing you to license something in a certain way, is 
grounds for serious lawsuits in intellectual property.
In a sense, he has literally robbed you of your intellectual
property rights.  American law protects "property rights"
to the utmost.  Heck, they had an Amendment to the Constitution
for that.  You may wish to inform the professor of his illegal
activities by an anonymous media.

Ask your school's free law service.  Most schools provide
a free legal consulting service via their law schools' faculty
and students.  I am very, very certain they will give you that
answer.  (Because I had asked before.)

Remember, you cannot fight a professor while taking his/her course.
Even if you are not taking his course, protect yourself by checking
all of the legal and school rules on such things.
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