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Re:Court: Photographer has no recourse against university co... by qtplatypus on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:13AM (#20181073)
The immunity from copyright and patent claims is critical to universty researches. Without it basic research would get mired in patent and copyright claims.

Many would be eventually ruled as fair use but that requires a judge to make a judgement as to the fair use factors. SI just requires the judge to see that it is the uni of Texas.

The uni doesnt care about the photographers licence fee. It cares about not getting by a phama company because a researcher happened to use a chemical that was under patent.

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Re:Court: Photographer has no recourse against university co... by tssva on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:25AM (#20182748)
Plenty of research gets done by corporations, private universities, and research institutes with needing immunity from copyright and patent claims. If public universities want immunity from copyright and patent claims then the resulting research should not be able to be copyrighted or patented.
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