Re: faculty coursework online

On 02/25/2000, Lyda Peters <lydap[_at_]aol.com> wrote:
>
> I am co-chairing a faculty committee on intellectual property rights.
> The committee has been established in our institution because, for
> the first time, we are offering a small number of courses on-line to
> students. Faculty are concerned that if they agree to teach courses
> on-line, much of the innovation, research, and curriculum developed
> will become the property of the College. The college, on the other
> hand, asked for advice from their lawyers and were told that this
> work does belong to the college under "work-for-hire" copyright law.

I encourage you to look at the the University of North Texas' Creation, Use, Ownership, Royalties, Revision and Distribution of Electronically Developed Course Materials policy. It provides an excellent model for IP policies, giving faculty their due share of credit while protecting the University which has provided minimal to substantial assistance in the development of online courses. Several other universities have adopted this policy (though note that as if this day, the policy is still under development at UNT.)

View the policy at:

   http://www.unt.edu/legalaffairs/distributed_learning.html

Carol Simpson, Ed.D.
Asst. Prof.
Univ. of North Texas School of Library & Info. Sciences Denton, TX
<csimpson[_at_]lis.admin.unt.edu> Received on Sat Feb 26 2000 - 15:17:36 GMT