[Commons-l] Dream a little...

Sun Oct 15 18:36:28 UTC 2006

Stan Shebs wrote:

>Scientists have a zillion valuable photographs that they're sitting on, 
>either out of lack of motivation or because they hope to use it in a 
>future publication, and they don't necessarily know about free 
>licensing.
>
Beep.

In many (most ?) cases, scientists are employed under terms of contracts 
or law that assign copyright for works done during their professional 
duties to their employer.