Re: Faculty use of student works

From: Bernard Katz <bkatz[_at_]uoguelph.ca>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 18:23:26 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Matthew Watters, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln, wrote:
>
> Along the same lines as my recent query about who holds the copyright
> to dissertations...[snip]...
> Does a faculty member at a college/university enjoy any license to
> reproduce student works prepared for his/her course(s)--research papers
> ...[snip]...
> If the answer to all this is, as I suspect, that the student reserves
> all the rights of any author, what is the practicality of a former
> instructor of that student tracking the student down for permission?
> After all, one cannot expect to locate the typical unpublished student
> "author" with the same facility one can the rightsholder to a published
> work.

It is for this reason that the University of Guelph requires, as a condition of study, that students grant the University a non-exclusive royalty-free licence to use such student-authored works as part of our teaching process.

Bernard Katz, Head, Special Collections and Library Development

              University of Guelph Library
              Guelph, Ontario

bkatz[_at_]uoguelph.ca // (519) 824-4120 X2089 // FAX: (519) 824-6931 Received on Wed Feb 05 1997 - 23:27:28 GMT