Features of statement of the ownership and control on online-practice at the university

Introduction. Since the announcement of adherence by leading world universities of the policy of open access to educational materials as a key issue within the scientific field, for years running, there remains a policy of ownership and control of online practice at universities. That is why the issue of fair use of educational materials and intellectual property on the content of the courses has become a subject for discussion.Methods. Methods of cognition are used in the process of writing the article, namely: methods of analysis, synthesis, concretization,which made it possible to investigate the cases in which universities can claim the ownership of the teaching materials of their employees; the method of scientific abstraction – to reveal the peculiarities of the cooperation of universities with online providers; the observation method has helped determine the conditions for using open licensed resources, such as GNU Lesser General Public Icense (LGPL) or Creative Commons (CC); logical and graphic structuring – used to visualize the results; generalization method – to form the conclusions of the study.Results. The paper investigates the cases in which universities can claim the ownership of the teaching materials of their employees, reveals the peculiarities of university co-operation with online service providers, and defines the conditions for using open licensed resources such as GNU Lesser General Public icense (LGPL) or Creative Commons (CC). A model is proposed that describes the process of transferring and retaining intellectual property rights.Discusion. The prospects for further research should be linked to a more detailed study of issues such as mass-exposed online courses that could threaten the intellectual property of professors.Keywords: intellectual property, copyright, sublicense, online course, licensed software.