Re: [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] JCP Members

[Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

MDeNicola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/12/18 04:00 PM:

An Associate Member is an individual who wants to participate in activities of the JCP without requiring an employer’s permission. They must sign an Associate Member Agreement, which involves only a personal IP commitment. Associate Members cannot join an Expert Group, but Spec Leads can list an Associate Member as a Contributor to a JSR.

(A Contributor is someone who is not a member of an Expert Group, but who the Spec Lead recognizes as having contributed to the JSR.)

How do you ensure that you have the rights to the IP in a Contributor's contributions and that the Contributor's employer doesn't own the IP?  Isn't this why an Employer Contribution Agreement is needed?