[I-mobile-u] question involving mobile deployment in Apple apps store (and Android)

[Andrew J Yu]

Apologies to everyone... I meant to send out a private email to Linh, but apparently my jet lag (I just arrived in Hong Kong a few hours ago) got the better of me.

Andrew


On Nov 18, 2010, at 9:34 AM, linh wrote:

Colleagues,

If you decide to share your insights, please take note that Apple bans all public statements regarding your contract agreement
according to section 10.4 of the Dev License Agreement.

Perhaps we could discuss the situation in more generic terms and what we'd like in a general higher-ed contract?

Regards,

- l -

On 11/17/10 5:22 PM, linh wrote:
For your viewing, here's an interesting article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
'All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement'
    http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/iphone-developer-program-license-agreement-all

- linh -

On 11/17/10 5:03 PM, linh wrote:
Greeting colleagues,

USC has recently joined the mobile band wagon.
I'm excited about the MIT mobile framework,
and is currently reviewing it to see how we can adapt the technology into our mobile development env.
A big thank to MIT for spearheading this project.

My question to you is the institution vetting process and legal/contractual agreement with Apple & Google.

I'm currently fighting with Apple to get a USC-vetted institution-wide developer license.
For a general agreement, Apple controls and owns 100% of the Intellectual Property rights to all apps uploaded into their app store.
In turns, they share the profit with the developers.
While we are not selling our apps (and thus, not concerned about the profit part),
our General Counsel is having a cow with the IP terms.

As a higher institution, have you all signed an agreement?  (how long did it take?)
Is there a general academic contract that your general counsel worked out with Apple?
Do you have the same problems with Google?

Any help or insights are greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Linh Pham
University of Southern California
213-821-3118



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