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Judge Rules Management Training Materials "Aggressively Vapid"
Fri - March 21, 2008 01:11 PM in
Anyone who has spent any time working in a large company has probably been through some sort of training program. Sometimes it's useful, more often it's an excuse to get paid for eating bagels and drinking coffee for a day.
One such program became the subject of a copyright dispute when a group of training consultants quit their jobs to form their own company and develop their own training materials. The original employer sued, alleging that the breakaway employees violated the copyright on the materials.
The judge disagreed, apparently ruling that copyright law applies to "original creative works," and that the management training materials were neither original nor creative:
"These works exemplify the sorts of training programs that serve as fodder for sardonic workplace humor that has given rise to the popular television show The Office and the movie Office Space. They are aggressively vapid-hundreds of pages filled with generalizations, platitudes, and observations of the obvious."
All across the country, office workers applaud Judge Young for recognizing the, well, obvious.
Posted by Peter Leppik
The judge disagreed, apparently ruling that copyright law applies to "original creative works," and that the management training materials were neither original nor creative:
"These works exemplify the sorts of training programs that serve as fodder for sardonic workplace humor that has given rise to the popular television show The Office and the movie Office Space. They are aggressively vapid-hundreds of pages filled with generalizations, platitudes, and observations of the obvious."
All across the country, office workers applaud Judge Young for recognizing the, well, obvious.
Posted by Peter Leppik
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