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When my son was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley he used to put a copyright notice on all his homework because the University has a similar policy. The policy w

• grumps 14y ago
  I'm not sure that even if a 1st grader could sign a contract that it would be legal. I believe these are public schools, and I think they're legally required to accept students.
  • rayiner 14y ago
    Contracts with minors (under 18, not just first graders) are unenforceable (technically: voidable) with very narrow exceptions. The lesson here is that schools won't do your work for you. They have zero incentive to educate you about you rights. They can tell you the law is whatever sounds convenient for them--they're gambling that people will just go along and not check.
    • betterunix 14y ago
      "schools...have zero incentive to educate you" Hm...
• dmckeon 14y ago
  Not a Cal student, but Cal & the UC have a number of pages about copyright, including: http://ipira.berkeley.edu/uc-copyright-policy http://ipira.berkeley.edu/uc-copyright-policy IV C. Student Work A student work is a work produced by a registered student without the use of University funds (other than Student Financial Aid), that is produced outside any University employment, and is not a sponsored, contracted facilities, or commissioned work. Ownership of copyrights to student works shall reside with the originator. and a terser version at: http://copyright.universityofcalifornia.edu/systemwide/ownershipguide.html http://copyright.universityofcalifornia.edu/systemwide/owner... Note also that schools using anti-plagiarism services like TurnItIn might want at least an implied license to copy putative student works so they could submit a copy of the work to the service.
  • russell 14y ago
    I can accept that his reasoning was flawed.