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Why is this controversial? Everything you do at work is owned by the employer, is that not how it always works?
by conistonwater 6y ago
Why is this controversial? Everything you do at work is owned by the employer, is that not how it always works?
- ModernMech 6y agoTraditionally the instructor owns copyright for course material: “ Few reported cases exist addressing the issue of whether the educational institution or the faculty member owns the copyright to teaching materials prepared by a faculty member. All the reported cases that do exist have either held, or stated in dictum, that the copyright to the materials at issue in those cases belonged to the faculty member, at least in the absence of an explicit agreement to the contrary between the institution and the faculty member. Thus, cases have essentially followed the "teacher exception" to the work for hire rule.” https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1110&=&context=elj&=&sei-redir=1 https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
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- jamessb 6y agoThat is the default, but it depends what your employment contract says. The relationship between a university and its academic staff is not quite a typical employer/employee relationship: academics have much more freedom to choose what to work on, and typically have more ownership of intellectual property they produce. This article gives a good introduction: Copyright ownership of e-learning and teaching materials: Policy approaches taken by UK universities https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-017-9583-4 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-017-9583-4
- conistonwater 6y agoThanks, I did not know that.
- nanna 6y agoIt's a fair question. No need to downvote.