Faculty should clarify the intellectual property issues surrounding the creation of distributive course materials because:
a. these digital materials may have commercial value, and the institution may decide to sell them. Faculty members need to know if they share ownership and, therefore, profits.
b. students may want to distribute materials to their family and friends and not have to pay for them.
c. accreditation agencies, as a part of their criteria, require that ownership of these materials belongs to the faculty who developed them and must be clearly stated in intellectual property (IP) policies.
d. if institutional resources were used to create these course materials, the materials belong to the institution.
ANS: A
With the digitization of class materials, there is a market for developed materials, and faculty members need to be aware of their rights to/ownership of these materials. The field is changing when it comes to ownership of materials developed to teach a course. Students distributing materials to their family and friends without paying for them relates to copyright issues. Accreditation agencies requiring, as a part of their criteria, that ownership of these materials belongs to the faculty who developed them and must be clearly stated in IP policies is not relevant to who actually owns what and what that may mean to a faculty member. While it may be true that the institution owns the course materials if institutional resources were used to create them, this would need to be clarified as this statement has applied to patents and inventions.
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