ownership of faculty works

From: Mary Jensen (List) <cnicopy[_at_]sunflowr.usd.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 19:45:14 -0600 (CST)

• Forwarded message ---------- From: Kenneth Crews <kcrews[_at_]velcome.iupui.edu> Date: Mon Feb 13 11:44:13 1995 Subject: Ownership of Faculty Works

A lively discussion of this issue transpired on this list a year or so ago. It may well be worth a second look. In the meantime, can we retrieve the previous messages from the archive? Can someone in-the-know please give guidance one more time for locating those messages? Thanks!

Kenneth Crews
Indiana University
Indianapolis

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On Fri, 10 Feb 1995 tdulberg[_at_]csuhayward.csuhayward.edu wrote:
>
> 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 Wed Feb 15 1995 - 01:46:56 GMT