Question about student ownership/copyright

From: Michael J Vinson <mvinson[_at_]U.Arizona.EDU>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:53:34 -0700 (MST)

Greetings.

Yes, this is kind of a homework question, but we're not writing because of deadline concerns. Rather, we'd like to know what some of you think about the Arizona Regents Draft of their new Intellectual Property Policy. <http://vpr2.admin.arizona.edu/ott/ABORdraft.htm>

When they address the ownership of student work, it reads like this:

C. Intellectual Property Creation and Ownership 
4. Employee-Initiated Works [?]  
e. student works (The student owns his/her own works, unless the

student is a university employee and the work is part of his/her employment, or the student makes significant use of university resources, or the student's work is part of a Sponsor-supported project ...)

As part of a class project, we're analyzing that language, especially
"significant use of university resources." (Our project is at
http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/moore/414/ip.html.)

We'd like to imagine some scenarios and possible problems with
"significant use of university resources." Is this standard legal
language? Can we make a case to the Regents for more accurate or definite terminology?

Also, we'll be discussing this issue online, on OldPuebloMOO <http://128.196.59.21:7000/> this Thursday at 7:00 p.m., Mountain Time if you'd like to join us. If you've never used a MOO, login as "guest," and type "@join michael." More instructions can be found at http://www.u.arizona.edu/~danika/moo/guide.html

Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Best,

Mike Vinson
Mike Moore

University of Arizona
<mvinson[_at_]u.arizona.edu> Received on Tue Apr 27 1999 - 22:56:31 GMT