Copyright law in many countries specifically prohibits that kind of arbitrary behavior. While a teacher developing an app on school time has to give the copyright to the school, if a teacher gets an idea for a new social media site, does the work on their own time at home, and launches a multimillion-dollar student social networking site, the school board does not own that, and cannot help itself to the profits.This proposed policy would make the school board the sole owners of that site, it's IP, and all goodwill generated by it, leaving the inventor with nothing for their efforts.
This wouldn't fly in a legal setting. I imagine whoever drafted that wasn't a lawyer, but instead just threw words down on paper. I also imagine after it went public, someone in Legal had a read-through, and very quietly advised them to take it off the table, which is why the article says it's been removed from the active list of considered amendments.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
This wouldn't fly in a legal setting. I imagine whoever drafted that wasn't a lawyer, but instead just threw words down on paper. I also imagine after it went public, someone in Legal had a read-through, and very quietly advised them to take it off the table, which is why the article says it's been removed from the active list of considered amendments.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.