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To: Michael Travers <mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Cc: amt-students@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Inventions and proprietary information agreement 
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 11 Sep 89 18:45:00 -0400.
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 21:19:30 EDT
From: mob@media-lab.media.mit.edu


Your concern that we might be locked out of using what we had produced
is the main one I had in mind while I looked over the material.
Sponsors have the right to the intellectual property, some with
payment and some without.  Non-sponsors only get rights two years
after a patent has been filed; it may be earlier if sponsors release
their rights.  I believe the creators of the property should be
guaranteed the much the same rights to their research as are research
contract sponsors: no license fee, no royalty, and reasonable
sub-license rights.  As such, I am to the left of AlanR but I also
have realistic expectations of how far the Lab is willing to go.

Once we've figured out what to go for, how do we introduce this
request for recognition?

--Mario