First Rights to Intellectual Property (IP)

The Attorney-General’s Department has mandated eligible Federal Government agencies provide software developers and independent software vendors with first rights to intellectual property (IP) for software developed under contract from 1 October.

Under the new principles, software developers will be required to grant the government as a whole a perpetual and irrevocable, royalty free licence to the software.

The new approach to intellectual property, which provides more incentive for developers to conduct long-term business with some government agencies.

Industry representative bodies remain glad of the latest change.

What are your opinions on the Attorney-General’s Department approach?

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