On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 13:33 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
But then someone told me today about some fine print clause somewhere that says University of the Arts owns anything someone creates while they're here.
I doubt *very* seriously if this is true.
Luckily, since no one here understands either the tuning systems or the inner workings of a PD patch, them knowing what I had in mind doesn't help them if they don't actually have it.
And how would it help them anyway? What sort of market do you imagine for what you're trying to create?
So what I'm wondering is, is there such a thing as ownership with a PD patch?
PD is an graphical object oriented programming environment. If you create a "patch" in PD, you're really building a unique program using the PD objects and interface. While you can't "own" PD, I would think that you can certainly claim ownership of your unique implementation of the environment that PD provides.
Kinda like making music using Ardour or Hydrogen - you own the music, even if you didn't create the original sound libraries and the program code. Or better yet - you could think of it like coding inside an IDE.
Best, Greg