Re: faculty coursework online

On 3/1/00, Steven D. Jamar <sjamar[_at_]law.howard.edu> wrote:
>
> For the most part, I think faculty should have the copyright and
> control of them -- but just who can use them under what circumstances
> and for what money -- that will be a sore spot for some time, I think.
>
> To end up where I began -- in the US, the work for hire doctrine may
> have a judge-made exception written by judges who were/are also
> academics.

This is only a student's (and writer's) point of view but I would say that since the University demands the publish or perish style of teacher tenure, then the works that are published for by the professor would be theirs. It should be the works that are developed for the class, curriculum that would be in the work-for-hire category. Unless the school requires that a video be filmed of the professor teaching as a training tool the whole curriculum should be the schools. A video, being a different thing should be something that can be negotiated for a time period of use like a photograph.

Marsha Kastama
Dracunihrn[_at_]aol.com Received on Thu Mar 02 2000 - 06:05:39 GMT