Case Study: CLA-Contribution License Agreement

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5. When you adopt the protections of the Creative Commons, you give up your exclusive rights to a work.
When signed the agreement with University of Albany, for my course of study, I authorized, allow University of Albany to have access and deal with my original work as they see fit without danger for them rising from eventual in the future disputes of intellectual property rights.
As we know, I assume most of us the intellectual product is protected by the Law and this type of agreements in this case CLA - Contribution License Agreement is part of the required steps University of Albany must take to protect the institution and my work (intellectual property) in the same time

Why would you ever do that?
Because I'm studying in University of
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I'm getting protection for my contribution (Intellectual Property on my work).

6. Based on your understanding of Lessig's bargain, what impact does your signature on the contributor's license have on the learning activities in INF 202?
The learning activities should be better performed taking into account that after I agreed to contribute my intellectual work the Institution should not have further concerns of plausible legal actions in the future that usually are very costly and may limit the ability of the institution to be able to provide courses like ING 202

7. Explain in a couple well-crafted sentences the purpose of a defensive publication. To be able to protect your intellectual work, is wise before jumping with high attorney's fees and filling for patent protection to start early in the project development to make defensive publications.
This is also called enabling publications that describe the work and intellectual product, the idea to the mass audiences. Why that is done, first is cheaper than patent attorney, second eliminate in the best case plausibility someone else to receive patent of your idea - intellectual work, because the process for issuing a patent requires detail research of all information about the subject idea and if somewhere someone already published about this subject idea - thus, did defensive publication, you can kiss goodbye of your patent

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