Questions tagged [intellectual-property]
Questions regarding the legal ownership of information and intellectual output.
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Does Elsevier inform authors (or corresponding author) once they received the payment for Article Publishing Charge (APC) for open access?
I have submitted a manuscript to a fully open access journal in Elsevier and they accepted it after several revision rounds. However, after acceptance I received an invoice and I submitted it to my ...
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Professor seeking to sell independently created software [closed]
I am a public-sector university teacher in Brazil. For the last few years, I have been independently working on teaching software, which I firmly believe has excellent commercial value in academia and ...
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Is voluntarily omitting to cite known relevant previous work a form of plagiarism, and what to do about repeated instances?
Consider the following scenario:
Person A and B start a collaboration, and discuss a variety of concepts over various months.
Person B ceases the collaboration, authorizing Person A to pursue the ...
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Can a pre-print manuscript co-author have the submission taken down if they object to its posting after the fact?
I really want to submit a manuscript to a pre-print server, where it would be only proper to include the P.I. as a co-author. Only problem is that our relationship is completely shot, and the P.I. ...
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Can I integrate contributing code to an open-source project as part of the curriculum?
First and foremost, I am not a lawyer. :) But I think I’ve got a tricky question: Can I integrate contributing code to an open-source project as part of the curriculum, and if so, how?
Let me provide ...
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IP protection when showing preprint work
This question is in line with What is an effective way to copyright my teaching material? but about preprint work, not course material.
I produced a huge original database during a COVID break (sans ...
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Would Making My Literature Review Open Source Be Beneficial to Others in Academia? [closed]
I am currently working on a comprehensive literature review for a paper in my field of study. As I delve deeper into this project, I am considering the possibility of making the literature review open ...
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How to publish and protect IP when starting a company
I'm a PhD researcher at a U.S. university who has developed a new deep learning method for an application with a high potential economic impact. I have a pending patent and plan to start a company to ...
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I submitted a bbsrc fellowship proposal. Does my institute own this material?
I have applied for a bbsrc fellowship. It was not funded. Now I am leaving this institute. In my contract it is written that all electronic material produced during the working time belongs to them
My ...
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How do I change my PhD stipend from a private to a public one whilst keeping the same research project and owning the IP? (v2)
I'm 1 year into my PhD and don't want to be involved with the private cooperative research centre (CRC) who is funding my PhD anymore. How do I change my stipend from a private to a public one whilst ...
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My supervisor uses my scientific jokes and metaphors in his talks. What's a healthy way to deal with this?
I'm a PhD student in the US. During my PhD I gave many conference talks, seminars, and presentations at our group meetings. In my talks, I often mention a creative way to phrase a problem, sometimes ...
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Is it acceptable to post an exam question from memory online?
You are not allowed to directly post material from a professor's lecture but any notes you take are considered your intellectual property. By the same token if you take an exam and remember a question ...
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Are you legally allowed to draw ideas from a book without permission?
My plan is to make a YouTube channel with a curriculum based on a pretty well-known textbook.
I want to reformulate and re-present the ideas in my own way. I will not take any direct quotes from the ...
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How long after completing a Postdoc position should one forfeit first-authorship for unpublished data?
Usually Postdoctoral Fellows do not have the Intellectual Property (IP) for the data they collect during their positions. When a Postdoc finishes their role, research institutions can potentially use ...
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What to do when a publication uses results of your research but does not cite it?
Recently, I found a monograph that includes results from my dissertation. Those results have also been included in conference presentations. They have also been disseminated by the funding agency that ...
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