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<font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Greeting
colleagues,<br>
<br>
USC has recently joined the mobile band wagon.<br>
I'm excited about the MIT mobile framework, <br>
and is currently reviewing it to see how we can adapt the
technology into our mobile development env.<br>
A big thank to MIT for spearheading this project.<br>
<br>
My question to you is the institution vetting process and
legal/contractual agreement with Apple & Google.<br>
<br>
I'm currently fighting with Apple to get a USC-vetted
institution-wide developer license.<br>
For a general agreement, Apple controls and owns 100% of the
Intellectual Property rights to all apps uploaded into their app
store.<br>
In turns, they share the profit with the developers.</font></font><font
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While we are not selling our apps (and thus, not concerned about
the profit part), <br>
our General Counsel is having a cow with the IP terms.</font></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">As a
higher institution, have you all signed an agreement? (how long
did it take?)<br>
Is there a general academic contract that your general counsel
worked out with Apple?<br>
Do you have the same problems with Google?<br>
<br>
Any help or insights are greatly appreciated.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Linh Pham<br>
University of Southern California<br>
213-821-3118<br>
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