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How Can A Departing Employee Misappropriate Their Own Creative Outputs?, Timothy Murphy
How Can A Departing Employee Misappropriate Their Own Creative Outputs?, Timothy Murphy
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Partially due to the widespread use of employee confidentiality and invention assignment agreements, employers routinely take ownership of employee creative outputs and use trade secrets law to enforce those rights post-employment. This Article proposes that, with respect to employee creative outputs, the current status of trade secrets law is inconsistent with the modern workplace, including as significantly altered, maybe permanently, by the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, the goal of this Article is to establish a mode of recognizing employee rights in their own creative outputs through a modification to the existing general skills and knowledge exclusion to explicitly recognize an employee's …
An Instance Of Open Hardware: A Different Approach To Free And Open Source Hardware Licensing, Timothy Murphy
An Instance Of Open Hardware: A Different Approach To Free And Open Source Hardware Licensing, Timothy Murphy
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As open source software ("OSS") has become more prevalent, and more widely accepted, many different OSS licenses have proliferated to provide different licensing constructs for licensors and licensees. The most popular OSS license is the GNU General Public License ("GPL"), which is protective of author rights and intended to foster an open software community. Because software source code and object code files are primarily protected by copyright, the options for license terms are relatively straightforward and well known. To the extent patent rights become an issue, various additional provisions have been proposed to address that issue in the context of …