Univ. rights

Are there any clear-cut guidelines regarding who owns the rights to artistic works, lectures, articles, etc. that a professor creates in the course of his work for a university?

Does the University own the rights, or does the individual professor?

I assume in a case where the university commissioned a work from a professor, that the work then becomes the property of the university and the professor gives up the rights to market that work on his own....

but in a case where the work is created as part of his employment at the university without a specific contract for a specific work, the lines are not so clear???

Any ideas on this subject? Are there any case studies or rulings on this subject..any sources for enlightenment?

Thanks.

Teresa Dulberg, Music Department
California State University, Hayward
(510) 881-3167
~tdulberg[_at_]csuhayward.edu Received on Fri Feb 10 1995 - 18:10:22 GMT