Re: Univ. rights

From: Fred Stafford <fred_stafford[_at_]aisqm.uchicago.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 1995 08:47:38 -0600

Most universities have an intellectual property policy that is incorporated into one's terms of employment. This would be definite for each institution.

For all instituions that I know of -- except Stanford and perhaps Wisconsin, and Stanford is said to be in the process of changing this-- and certainly for all Federally supported work at all universities, all *inventions* are the property of the University with the inventor entitled to portion of the net or gross revenue stream from the invention. For all institutions that I know of, including specifically the University of Chicago, except for work-done-for-hire and certain texts created under grants, books, textbooks and artistic creations are the property of the author. The UofC also distinguishes between text-like and device-like software in this regard.

Fred Stafford
f-stafford[_at_]uchicago.edu

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> Date: 2/10/95 7:26 PM
> To: Fred Stafford
> From: cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org
> 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 Mon Feb 13 1995 - 14:58:42 GMT