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From: marty1@houdi.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Who owns the output of an AI?
Message-ID: <1412@houdi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 06:12:03 EST
Article-I.D.: houdi.1412
Posted: Thu Nov 12 06:12:03 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 06:21:20 EST
References: <1778@svax.cs.cornell.edu> <4631@spool.wisc.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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Summary: even as you and I

In article <4631@spool.wisc.edu>, honavar@speedy.WISC.EDU (A Buggy AI Program) writes:
> In article <1778@svax.cs.cornell.edu> houpt@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Charles (Chuck) Houpt) writes:
> >   The law says that the output of an AI is owned by the user running the
> >AI, NOT the programmer who designed it.
> > ....
> > ... To me the British law seems unfair.....

It's just like the law governing real intelligence. Your
teachers created (or at least created a lot of value added in)
your intelligence, but a stroke of your pen will assign any
patents you create to your employer.  Though your teachers may
know more about your work than your employer, they have no claim
on the intellectual property you create after you leave their
campus.

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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