The Ethics of Brown vs. DSC
[email protected]@mcdougallpr.comWhen does an idea belong to an employee and when can a company claim incubation rights? Richard Mason, the incoming director of SMU's Maguire Ethics Center and current distinguished professor in MIS at SMU's Cox School of Business, tackles this issue. Using the case of Brown v. DSC Communications, Mason discusses questions including who owns intellectual property and where is the line between ideas created at work and those created on personal time.