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JoeF, Do you know of a good online resource where I can look through the CIS memos? Or does it exist only in printed form? Any relevant info is appreciated.

Thanks - but this case, Routledge is a for-profit publisher and I am afraid that I won't be able to accept their payment. I wonder what they mean when they said they paid honorarium to so many foregin scholars and we didn't have problems...

I wrote a few pages worth of something for a book to be published by Routledge. The book is about to be published and they wanted to pay me honorarium. (I'm on a nonimmigrant visa and cannot accept active income.) I brought up the issue that this honorarium may not be considered passive income...

Thanks for youre response. If there are few relevant cases in the past, how a good lawyer could help me on these questions? (I think this might be why lawyers I talked are not very interested...) Do you know if CIS is willing to provide clarification of their views on cafepress, ebay...

Sounds like the law has problems everywhere... Those open source programmers are probably geeky enough to write the codes for their own enjoyment anyway, and their codes in open resource would only help others... My garage inventions are same... indeed much of my prior work is published on web...

Where did you read that? My notebook has technical records but there is no mention of money. There is not even a cost calculation. It would be hard to argue I had intended to start a business based on this alone. I might also argue that, since my licensee is a business based outside the U.S...

Hello - I've been in the US as a nonimmigrant alien on an academic visa. I have a quite technical hobby, and I have had a "garage lab." Some of the knowledge I have acquired through my hobby is recognized by a manufacturer to be of their commercial interest, and they want to license my...