Listmates,

David H. is exactly spot on (as he almost always is) in decrying the use
of generic gift forms that presuppose that the donor owns the
intellectual right to the object in question. It seems to me, however,
that a good solution might be to reword the generic form instead of
having to pick from several specific forms depending on the
circumstances, object, and donor. I propose that the generic form contain
some such language as:

"the object and all intellectual rights, if any, I have to it. The
specific intellectual rights that I believe I am transferring are listed
below:"

I thinks such language (tweaked and blessed by all your lawyers, of
course) would provide an adequate opportunity to produce a legal transfer
and still be honest. It would have the additional advantage of reminding
the person accepting the object to ask about intellectual rights
(assuming, of course, that anybody actually reads the form)

Happy trails, the other David H.

David Haynes            [log in to unmask]            San Antonio

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