Re: "University as author?"

It is interesting. If Kansas succeeds, then it is likely to shoot itself in the foot. Many academic publishers require surrender of copyright by the faculty member prior to publishing. It seems the State of Kansas would be unlikely to agree to such, in which case Kansas faculty will lose their vehicles for publishing and the state's programs of higher education will eventually lose whatever accreditation they have.

Wouldn't the state's prior practice of allowing faculty to assign copyrights to publishers automatically establish a somewhat binding contractual agreement?

David Dailey
At 06:15 PM 8/8/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>I thought the list might find this article interesting...
>
>University as Author?
>
>The Kansas Supreme Court will soon decide whether the Kansas Board of
>Regents has to negotiate its intellectual property policy in the future,
>or whether it can simply hand down a decree ­ even one that asserts
>ownership of all faculty work.
>
>from http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/08/08/kansas
>
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