Dear PM Hub Colleagues- For those of you who are academics or cutting edge practitioners, here is something really important about a major change in IP Policy by the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEi)
“On August Friday, 26, 2011, the US based Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, announced a major shift in the IP policy of most US based, global professional organizations by announcing that effective immediately, instead of contributors having to sign over their intellectual property to the organization, including the rights to any derivative works, AACE has changed the policy so that now, contributors do NOT have to give up their rights of ownership or the rights to any derivative works, but are merely granting an extensive license to AACE to use the author/contributors IP while leaving ownership with the contributor.
This policy is consistent with the intent of Creative Commons licensing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ and represents a major departure from the policy of most other US based professional organizations. In making this change, it is anticipated that AACE will attract both academics and practitioners doing cutting edge research and innovative implementations and has been designed especially to appeal to the Generation X and Generation Y practitioners, who are fast becoming today’s leaders.
To see the complete wording of this innovative and progressive IP agreement, point your browser here http://www.aacei.org/am/guidelines/welcome.shtml and download the “Publications and Speaker Agreement”.
Compare this against the IP policies of YOUR current professional organization and see which organization you would rather share your knowledge and experience with.
BR,
Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo, CDT, CCE, MScPM, MRICS
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