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<font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Colleagues,<br>
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sans-serif">If you decide to share your insights</font></font><font
size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">, please take
note that Apple bans all public statements regarding your
contract agreement<br>
according to section 10.4 of the Dev License Agreement.<br>
<br>
Perhaps we could discuss the situation in more generic terms and
what we'd like in a general higher-ed contract?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
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- l -<br>
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On 11/17/10 5:22 PM, linh wrote:
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<font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">For your
viewing, here's an interesting article from the Electronic
Frontier Foundation<br>
'All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer
Program License Agreement'<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/iphone-developer-program-license-agreement-all">http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/iphone-developer-program-license-agreement-all</a><br>
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- linh -<br>
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On 11/17/10 5:03 PM, linh wrote:
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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
size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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>
<br>
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