How come there are no student unions?
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Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The sad thing is the students who actually did the work will probably see no financial gain from this. Students pay to take a class and then a company pays the university for access to the students and the students ideas and work is used by a company with no financial benefit to the students. Everyone makes out except the students.
KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Jaeger86@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Then they’d have to start paying student ath-a-leets. 😉
Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There are graduate students unions or research assistant unions. Undergraduates (not ones working in a lab) don’t work for the university they are customers. It would be like members of a gym unionizing. I guess it could happen maybe.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Actually unless they made it working for the university its normal for students to retain their IP rights.
Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I worked at a UC and companies retained all IP across all UCs and my undergrad school from the east coast was the same way. I’ve never heard of a university that let students keep their IP. I would imagine it would be hard to attract outside companies since the companies pay to be a part of the program. Can you point to a university program that allows students to retain their IP for senior design projects? I know if a student is doing a project through the school for a different class like a lab and they invent something or are volunteering the university has no claim to it but senior design is different.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Sure: www.research.psu.edu/otm/student_IP_guidance
This is something I’ve remember over hearing as well from a FOSS advocate as bit of complexity they deal with.