Re: Re: "University as author?"

The Kansas policy referenced in the article specifically gives copyright ownership of scholarly articles to their faculty so I think there is not going to be a problem with faculty publishing contracts and opportunities. The Kansas policy has some interesting add-ons but overall is fairly typical of most institutions.

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> From: David Dailey <david.dailey[_at_]sru.edu>

> Reply-To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property

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> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:20:30 -0400

> To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property <CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org>

> Subject: [CNI-(C)]  Re: "University as author?"

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> 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
>> 
>> -dab
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