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Understand IP considerations regarding online instruction
Author(s) -
Rooksby Jacob H.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
campus legal advisor
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-6239
pISSN - 1531-3999
DOI - 10.1002/cala.40295
Subject(s) - intellectual property , class (philosophy) , covid-19 , computer science , psychology , engineering , medicine , artificial intelligence , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , operating system
When higher education moved online this past spring because of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, few faculty or administrators had time to stop and ponder the intellectual property–related questions regarding remote instruction. Do faculty own materials used when teaching remotely, or does the university (as employer and software provider) have a claim? Can faculty use material protected by copyright in a remote‐learning course? What's the role of university IP policies? Who owns class recordings?