lundi 16 février 2015

Is my code my intellectual property or the University's?


I'm an undergraduate researcher. I wrote a script to solve a problem when I was working on our previous research project. I was unpaid at the time.


Now I am paid for my research and am updating my script (so that it runs better and is more easily accessible to my research group and easier for them to maintain when I leave.)


Who owns my code? Me or the school? Does it matter that I was unpaid (essentially doing the research for fun) at the time I initially wrote the code?


I'm fine with my research group using it in the future, but I want to be able to use it in the future as well when I move onto graduate school.


My current plan is to really build on it and make a really nice suite that would be applicable to both what we're doing now and what I would like to be doing in grad school, but I don't want to do it if I'm going to run into legal hot water.


(I go to Purdue.)





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