Re: [WPA-L] Ohio State IP Policy

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Nick Carbone

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Mar 24, 2015, 6:43:34 PM3/24/15

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Higher Education is an industry, even if one works at public nonprofit. I hope the faculty senate is strong enough to push back.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:40 PM, ten grrl <ten...@tengrrl.com> wrote:

Story at
http://academeblog.org/2015/03/24/ohio-state-university-seeks-to-dramatically-revamp-its-policy-on-faculty-intellectual-property-rights/

I find it especially troubling that students lose IP rights just for using
a computer on campus:

“The proposal says that all intellectual property created by faculty, staff
and students belongs to Ohio State if it was made under any of these
criteria: under the scope of OSU employment; using university
infrastructure, money or equipment; or in a university research laboratory."

I wonder if "equipment" extends to writing in a notebook on a table in the
library, too.